Friday Nights by Joanna Trollope

Another good book! (Our library is full of them!) Friendships are so important. The older we get the more we realize our important it is to have relationships with others. Eleanor has retired from a job that took up most of her life. Now she has time to watch out her window. She notices there are two women with kids in her neighborhood who always appear to be alone. One day she confronts the two of them and insists they come to her place Friday night. Eventually this weekly ritual is attended by six women (from the elderly Eleanor to twenty-two year old Jules) plus children. This is the story of their ups and downs and the usual you would expect from a bunch of women. (Can we really be that petty sometimes?) Then a man enters the life of one of the women - that messes up lots of things!