Book For Review Courtesy of NetGalley / HaperCollins Focus
Margaret Ryan could easily be a mom-fluencer, making elaborate canapes for the bookclub she intends to host, and stopping at the woods by her home together real spruce branches to make a garland. But Margaret is a housewife in 1963, eager to read Betty Friedan's watershed book The Feminine Mystique. Margaret invites Bitsy, Viv, and newcomer Charlotte, three housewives from her neighborhood to start a bookclub. Bitsy works at a stable taking care of horses (especially the horse of Katherine Graham, another feminist groundbreaker.) Bitsy's husband (19 years her senior) is an equine veterinarian establishing a new practice. Bitsy feels pressure to have a child as that is what wives should do, but Bitsy has an unfulfilled dream of her own. Viv is a mother of six kids and cannot get a prescription for the (then) new contraceptive pill unless her husband grants her gynecologist permission to prescribe it. But she may be too late isv very suspect she is expecting baby number seven. Charlotte is a recent transplant to the community (Concordia, Virginia, a suburb of D.C.) She smokes in her therapist's office and complains about her husband and kids. Calling themselves The Bettys, the four women remain friends through the Sexual Revolution and learn how to find fulfillment on their own terms.
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