01578cam a2200301 i 4500 168620195 TxAuBib 20140826120000.0 131018s2014||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2013038708 9781455529599 large print : hardcover 1455529591 large print : hardcover TxAuBib rda Siddons, Anne Rivers. The girls of August / Anne Rivers Siddons. First edition. New York : Grand Central Publishing, 2014. 291 pages (large print) ; 24 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Every August, four women gather together to spend a week at the beach, renting a new house each year. The ritual began when they were in their twenties and their husbands were in medical school. Their only criteria was oceanfront and isolation, their only desire to strengthen their far-flung friendships. They called themselves the Girls of August. But when one of the Girls dies tragically, the group slowly drifts apart. Years later, after a new marriage reunites them and they come together on a remote barrier island off the South Carolina coast, the women make startling discoveries that will change them in ways they never expected. 20140826. Female friendship Fiction. Large type books. South Carolina Fiction. Domestic fiction.