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The Three Mrs. Parkers
The Three Mrs Parkers
Author: Joan Medlicott
ISBN-13: 9780739451106
ISBN-10: 0739451103
Publication Date: 2005
Pages: 290
Edition: 1st
Rating:
  • Currently 3/5 Stars.
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3 stars, based on 12 ratings
Publisher: Pocket Books
Book Type: Hardcover
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9 Book Reviews submitted by our Members...sorted by voted most helpful

Pampdi avatar reviewed The Three Mrs. Parkers on + 29 more book reviews
Helpful Score: 1
Very good novel about three generations of women, coming together...and the problems they face..How they overcome them, and the love and friendships that form
pjmom8025 avatar reviewed The Three Mrs. Parkers on + 45 more book reviews
Helpful Score: 1
A typical sappy story from Joan Medlicott. Easy read. Right up my alley.
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Helpful Score: 1
This is a nice story about the distances that can grow between family and the lengths to which we will go to preserve them....or erase them. A nice story with likable characters.
QMJudy avatar reviewed The Three Mrs. Parkers on + 42 more book reviews
Helpful Score: 1
A book of forgiveness and acceptance. An awful lot of drama for one novel - I prefer Medlicott's Covington series for depth. But a nice read. Includes women of many ages and the depths of their experience. Makes me think about my friends' childhoods and wonder what might have happened to influence their current personalities.
reviewed The Three Mrs. Parkers on + 44 more book reviews
Excellent read!
reviewed The Three Mrs. Parkers on + 35 more book reviews
This book was a good story, but not great writing.
reviewed The Three Mrs. Parkers on + 471 more book reviews
From Joan Medlicott, the nationally bestselling author who created the wonderful world of Covington, comes a heartwarming story about three generations of women who find their way past old hurts and losses to understanding, forgiveness, and love.

Winifred Parker climbed her way out of poverty by marrying into one of Philadelphia's oldest, wealthiest families. Now seventy-two years old, she has always felt that her son married beneath him and she has had no contact with her daughter-in-law, Zoe, since her son was killed in Korea.

Zoe Parker lives alone on twenty-eight acres of rural Carolina land that she inherited from her parents. Determined to preserve her property when faced with the threat of foreclosure, Zoe, now in her fifties, has no choice but to turn to her wealthy, estranged mother-in-law.

Katie Parker is a young divorcée whose daughter recently passed away. When she returns home to Zoe's land to heal, she knows enough about her mother's history to be surprised to find her grandmother living there, too.

Though old grievances stand between the three women, new challenges and grave danger cause them to forge a new path together, and they soon find unexpected bonds forming along the way. Joan Medlicott has created an entirely new group of characters you'll want to spend time with in this warm, rich novel about family, friendship, and where the two meet.
thameslink avatar reviewed The Three Mrs. Parkers on + 723 more book reviews
Quick, satisfying read. Very, very enjoyable!
readinggranny avatar reviewed The Three Mrs. Parkers on + 87 more book reviews
It was a good book. Story of three women who must work through their grievances they have with one another.Zoe Parker, her daughter Katie and Zoe's mother-in-law meet new challenges and danger as they work to forge a new path together. They find their way past old hurts and losses to understanding, forgiveness, and love.