Helen Hooven Santmyer "...And Ladies of the Club"

Helen Santmyer, a retired English professor, began this novel in her forties and finished it before her death in her nineties. She focuses not only on the lives of two young women (members of a book club) and the various characters in their small town, but also their families, friends, politics, and developments in their town and the larger world.
Good read.
Marina