The Book Club for Troublesome Women by Marie Bostwick

In 1963, Margaret lives with her husband Walt and three children in Concordia, a Virginia suburb. She wants to get back to writing and decides to start a book club, with the first book being The Feminine Mystique by Betty Friedan.  Her friends that join the group are Bitsy, Viv, and Charlotte. All feel unfulfilled and that there is something missing in their lives. Bitsy is married to King, a veterinarian who is almost twenty years her senior. Viv, who served as a nurse in World War II, is happily married to Tony and has six children. Charlotte, an aspiring painter, is in an unhappy marriage with Howard. The Book Club for Troublesome Women recounts the lives of the four women throughout that year as they support each other as each strikes out to have a life outside of the home. A great read-alike for Miss Dreamsville and the Collier County Women's Literary Society and Lorna Landvik's Angry Housewives Eating Bon Bons.