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On the eve of the Depression, four girls confide their dreams on paper and commit them to posterity by storing them in a blue bottle in an attic. Sixty-five years later, a jaded female television reporter finds their girlhood wishes and determines to track the women down. While the plot may sound predictable, the characters are not; they are some of the strongest, most appealing women characters ever to appear in an evangelical fiction. The novel has a happy ending, but not in the traditional sense written for a female audience: no godly hero comes riding in on white horse to rescue the women from poverty, abandonment and despair. Their stories involve broken dreams, betrayed hearts, unconditional love, and their lifelong friendships with other women.
