This book allows you to join a circle of friends that will never be broken. Life, love, and friendship echo through the years for a group of Deep South women who have been holding biannual reunions since their graduation from college. None of the Same Sweet Girls are really girls anymore and none of them have ever actually been that sweet. But they have been alive. And real. And in love, and broken, and hurt and fixed and laughing and dancing and bitter and alive and caught on the miraculous breathlessness of a magnolia-scented Alabama evening. Six girls, now women. Six lives entwining throughout the endless alleyways of adulthood. Two meetings a year to share and bicker and argue and grow: two meetings in which the lives of three of the Same Sweet Girls come slowly unravelled, caught on snags that are stretching them to breaking point. Lady Julia Stovall, the perfect political wife. Torn between loyalty to her husband, the governor of Alabama, and an unwelcome attraction to his bodyguard. Former sports star Lanier Sanders, fun loving and irrepressibly drawn to catastrophe. She's done it again and this time it might just mess up her life for good. And Corinne Cooper, a renowned gourd artist, battling her controlling ex-husband for the affection of her estranged son. On an island every summer and in the mountains every autumn, the Same Sweet Girls come together to share their stories. And when one of them falls prey to an event that will become the greatest challenge of her life, the girls discover the true extent of their friendship. This is a heartbreaking, hilarious and inspiring eulogy to the power of true friends.