Jillian Lawton and Lesley Adamski. Two girls from very different
backgrounds. Jillian is the only child of wealthy parents, while
Lesley's from a working-class family. They become best friends in the
turbulent '60s, but their circumstances, their choices--and their
mistakes--take them in virtually opposite directions. Lesley stays in
their Washington State hometown. She gets pregnant and marries young,
living a life defined by the demands of small children, not enough
money--never enough money--and an unfaithful husband. Jill lives those
years in a completely different way: on a college campus shaken by the
Vietnam War, and then as an idealistic young lawyer in New York City.
But they always remain friends.
Through the years and across the miles, through marriage, children,
divorce and widowhood, Jill and Lesley confide everything to each
other--every grief and every joy. Because the quality of a friendship is
the quality of a life.