This snappy comedy of suburban manners among the middle-aged is as heartwarming as a catchy pop song and as carefully arranged as classical choral music. Readers of Anne Tyler, Ann Leary, and other wry observers of human nature will enjoy visiting Bridgeford.
The familiar notion that a group of women behaves like a hive is developed here into an enjoyably acerbic social commentary on mean girls of all ages, lightened by touches of hen lit.