Viola Shipman

Bestselling author Viola Shipman is at her absolute best with The Clover Girls. Readers of all ages and backgrounds will love its powerful, redemptive nature and the empowering message at its heart. Elizabeth, Veronica, Rachel and Emily met at Camp Birchwood as girls in 1985, where over four summers they were the Clover Girls--inseparable for those magical few weeks of freedom--until the last summer that pulled them apart. Now approaching middle age, the women are facing challenges they never imagined as teens, struggles with their marriages, their children, their careers, and wondering who it is they see when they look in the mirror. Then Liz, V and Rachel each receive a letter from Emily with devastating news. She implores the girls who were once her best friends to reunite at Camp Birchwood one last time, to spend a week together revisiting the dreams they'd put aside and repair the relationships they'd allowed to sour. But the women are not the same idealistic, confident girls who once ruled Camp Birchwood, and perhaps some friendships aren't meant to last forever...

The Clover Girls

"Like a true friendship, The Clover Girls is a novel you will forever savor and treasure." —Mary Alice Monroe, New York Times bestselling author Elizabeth, Veronica, Rachel and Emily met at Camp Birchwood as girls in 1985, where over four summers they were the Clover Girls—inseparable for those magical few weeks of freedom—until the last summer that pulled them apart. Now approaching middle age, the women are facing challenges they never imagined as teens, struggles with their marriages, their children, their careers, and wondering who it is they see when they look in the mirror. Then Liz, V and Rachel each receive a letter from Emily with devastating news. She implores the girls who were once her best friends to reunite at Camp Birchwood one last time, to spend a week together revisiting the dreams they’d put aside and repair the relationships they’d allowed to sour. But the women are not the same idealistic, confident girls who once ruled Camp Birchwood, and perhaps some friendships aren’t meant to last forever… Bestselling author Viola Shipman is at her absolute best with The Clover Girls. Readers of all ages and backgrounds will love its powerful, redemptive nature and the empowering message at its heart.

A Novel

Kristen Claiborn

Clover Girls follows the lives of three women after they get the news their mutual friend has passed away, but before she died, she left them each letters with instructions. They reunite at the summer sleepaway camp they had met at years ago, long before they had a falling out and went about living their lives very separately. They are forced to confront each other and the reasons they stopped talking; and they’re forced to confront their individual lives and why they are all equally unhappy. 
	I wasn’t able to connect to much of this book, simply because there weren’t many parallels to my own life. I never had the opportunity to go to sleepaway camp, that type of activity just wasn’t in the budget. I also didn’t have a group of friends from my childhood that I was super close to like these girls were. I find that the books I enjoy the most are either ones I connect with on a personal level, or ones by Stephen King. For much of the duration of this book, I felt like it was dragging. There was just so much that I didn’t care about and it made getting through the whole thing feel tedious. However, by the end, I found myself rooting for each of these women to find their “truth,” whatever that may have been. Trying to find peace with your life and the choices you’ve made is pretty damn hard, and these women each had to face that path, which I was able to understand. When I finished the book, I realized that it had made me think, and while that’s not necessarily something I look forward to when I read a book, I appreciated some of that with this book.

The Clover Girls

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