Dear Mrs. Freed

"Dear Mrs Freed" is set in the present but recalls a time when flowers were power, love was free, and abortion illegal and dangerous. After years of emotional tumult, Gayle Kendell, tormented by the past she refuses to acknowledge but cannot forget, marries up and into Philadelphia's Main Line. But luxury does not lessen the feelings of responsibility Gayle carries for the 1969 death of her best friend, Meredith Freed. The good life only exacerbates her guilt and precipitates an elevator phobia that threatens to turn Gayle's new penthouse into hell. No amount of meddling into friends' lives, their marriages, men, or cellulite obsessions, is enough to distract Gayle from her demons until, in a turn that surprises everyone, answers to questions never asked bring changes to Gayle and all around her.