This book was mentioned in one or several books I’d recently read. I had bought it a while ago at a used book sale. The original price in this hardback, published in 1963 (first in 1954), was $5.95. It is a book about a group of eight women in the years immediately after they graduate from Vassar. Though it is set in the 1930’s, it is not that different from a number of other books I’ve read with the same theme. That said, after a slow start, I did enjoy the book and it got me through a long day at the hospital while my mother had surgery. Also, I knew a Mary McCarthy, who died earlier this year and every time I looked at the cover, I thought of her.