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THE FOUR SEASONS fiction
THE FOUR SEASONS tells the story of four
sisters, bound by blood, driven apart by a childhood tragedy.
Thirty years later, Jilly, Birdie and Rose embark on an
emotional search for the child Jilly had given up for adoption.
During the search, the sisters rekindle their love
and the lost dreams of their youth. They also resolve
the individual crises that threaten their futures. THE FOUR
SEASONS is a story of rediscovery,
love and forgiveness as family secrets are revealed.
REVIEWS on THE FOUR SEASONS
“In Evanston, Illinois, three
of the four Seasons siblings are coming
home to attend the funeral
of their youngest sister, Merry. Only thirty-two,
Merry died when her lungs finally failed after a long period
of illness. The oldest of the sisters, Jilly, flies in from
France where her career as a model is just about over. Birdie,
accompanied by her spouse and teenage daughter, drives down
from Wisconsin. Rose, being Merry’s caretaker over
the years, waits for the arrival of her two sisters.
After the funeral ends, the family attorney
announces the will, which is standard stuff until he gives
the siblings a video and a letter from Merry, who was brain
damaged in an accident many years ago. In both, Merry
pleads with her siblings to bring home Spring, the daughter
that Jilly gave up for adoption when she was a teen.
The trio reacts differently to Merry’s deathbed request,
but in the end blood proves thicker than water and an odyssey
to “return home” by finding Spring begins.
THE FOUR SEASONS is a deep
contemporary relationship drama that showcases
the personalities of four siblings. The storyline is loaded
with emotion as each of the three surviving Seasons cope
with Merry’s death and her request in their own way.
With novels like this one and THE BOOK CLUB, Mary Alice
Monroe continues to be one of the leaders of complex
female relationship dramas that hit home to the audience.”
-- Harriet Klausner, The Best Reviews
“Monroe
writes with a crisp precision and narrative
energy that will keep (readers) turning the pages. Her talent
for infusing her characters with warmth and vitality and
her ability to spin a tale with emotional depth
will earn her a broad spectrum of readers.”
--Publishers Weekly
“Mary Alice Monroe writes
from her heart to the hearts of her readers.
It is a quality of emotional honesty together with lyrical,
descriptive passages that draws her audience to books like
The Four Seasons.”
-- Charleston Post and Courier
“Moving, touching and beautifully
drawn, the characters in this wonderful novel are
compelling and true. Ms. Monroe’s skills
as a teller of women’s fiction are becoming quite
exceptional.”
--Romantic Times Magazine |
Mary
Alice Monroe