Sisters and Strangers Author:Helen Van Slyke It was the eve of Sam and Laura Dalton's golden wedding anniversary and "their girls" were coming home to Denver for the celebration. Thirty years had passed since the sisters were together under their parents' roof. Years of disillusion for the jaded, sophisticated Frances who had run off in the forties with a young actor and who returned, thre... more »e marriages later, to rediscover and nearly destroy her childhood sweetheart. Years of misery for Alice, the battered wife, once banished as a pregnant teenager who ultimately gave her child for adoption. Years of pretended happiness for Barbara, career woman and mistress of a prominent congressman who threatened to put ambition ahead of love.« less
3 sisters return home for their paternts golden anniversary much to their parents delight. It is hard for the girls to return to their memories and early lives. The sisters become closed, but tragedy occurs.