Review "The Opening" is a fine first novel...a refreshing regional setting ... sensitively handles the bonding of good friends. -- The State, April 9,2000 Product Description The Opening, a heart tugging story of long lasting friendships, high flying dreams, and perilous loves, reads like a weekend with your best friends.Lucy discovers a prediction that she wrote over thirty years ago about herself and five high school girl friends. Her decision to find these friends and bring them together again opens both a treasure-trove of good memories and a Pandoras box of troubles, self-doubts, and recriminations. In spite of being told as young women that they could have it all, these friends had to struggle with difficult decisions that still haunt them. Like them, you may have had to choose between your job and your sense of what is right. By making these choices, womenlike Lucy and her friendshave made their destinies. They have had not just one coming-of-age but several.The Opening will open windows on your life and memories and will redefine the heroine. She is probably you. About the Author Susannah Wilds writes about her native South and the fast paced world of high-tech and big business that she knows so well. She lives with her husband at Lake Murray in South Carolina.