This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are the products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events, locales, or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.
Copyright © 2011 by Meg Waite Clayton
All rights reserved.
Published in the United States by Ballantine Books, an imprint of The Random House Publishing Group, a division of Random House, Inc., New York.
BALLANTINE and colophon are registered trademarks of Random House, Inc.
Grateful acknowledgment is made to Graywolf Press
for permission to reprint “Let Evening Come” from Collected
Poems by Jane Kenyon, copyright © 2005 by The Estate of Jane
Kenyon. Reprinted by permission of Graywolf Press, Minneapolis,
Minnesota,
www.graywolfpress.org.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication
Data
Clayton, Meg Waite.
The four Ms. Bradwells: a novel / Meg Waite Clayton.
p. cm.
eISBN: 978-0-345-52435-5
1. Female friendship—Fiction. 2. Middle-aged women—Fiction. 3.
United States. Supreme Court.—Officials and employees—Selection and
appointment—Fiction. 4. Judges—Selection and appointment—United
States—Fiction. 5. Secrets—Fiction. I. Title. II. Title: 4 Ms.
Bradwells.
PS3603.L45F68 2011
813′.6—dc22 2010033479
Jacket design: Georgia Feldman
Jacket photograph: Burazin/Getty Images
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