The Necklace: Thirteen Women and the Experiment That Transformed Their Lives

by Cheryl Jarvis

Book Overview

One day in Ventura, California, Jonell McLain saw a beautiful diamond necklace in a jewelry store window and wondered: Why are personal luxuries so plentiful yet accessible to so few? What if we... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0345500717
• ISBN13: 9780345500717
• Release Date: September 2008
• Publisher: Ballantine Books
• Length: 210 Pages
• Weight: 0.93 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.9" x 8.6"

Customer Reviews

Great Read!

After reading this book, I had to buy a copy for my best friend. It is a great, true story about 13 women, a beautiful necklace and the friendship that grows from their experiment in sharing and cooperation. I loved this story and recommend it to others.

Very good

Delivery and condition was very good.Haven't read it yet; will be a read for our Book Club.

I want this necklace

Read it in two days. Loved these women, especially the ones who at first weren't interested (the jeweler's wife)and their spirit. Gave it to my sister to read and she said - let's do it!

A movie should be made

One of the best books I have read recently. My husband even read it although I considered it a "Woman's Book" and he thought it was great. Have loaned it to several friends who all love it and I feel it would make a wonderful movie

A heart-warmer

This is a charming story, nicely and succinctly told. It's hard to put down once you open it up. How the women changed their lives is but one part of the tale, however. How they brought in women outside their group, passing the necklace around for the enjoyment of many, broadens the book beyond friendship to make what they're doing a real phenomenon, and a model for what good people could do in other collaborations. I plan to give a copy to all my best women friends, for Christmas.