Sometimes What Your Life Is Missing Is An Eccentric Group Of Older Ladies To Take You Under Their Wing.when Rae Sutton's Mama Passes Away And Leaves Her The House Where She Grew Up, Rae Can't Imagine How The Little Old Place Might Restore Her Broken Life. Mourning The Recent Loss Of Her Marriage, She Takes The House And Settles Back Into Her Tiny Hometown With Her Fourteen-year-old Daughter, Molly Margaret, And Their Overweight Dog.there She's Embraced By Her Mother's Close-knit Circle Of Friends, The Third Thursday Ladies. Though Almost Half Their Age And Far Less Confident Of Positive Outcomes, Rae Joins Their Ministry-slash-book-club-slash-gossip Circle And Allows The Women To Speak Wry Honesty And Witty Humor Into Her Tired Heart.