- Have you ever received a gift that created unexpected issues?
- Alice and Lauren were once best friends who had a falling-out. Have you ever lost a friend or a best friend? And if so, were you able to mend the friendship? What are your regrets?
- At the beginning of the novel, it’s been years since Knox, Lauren, and Alice have seen each other. Would you be able to live with someone you weren’t close to for a year?
- Is it healthy to keep secrets from your loved ones, or is it always bad? What are some of the pros and cons of keeping truths from your friends and family?
- Even though everything worked out, was Eleanor right to stipulate in her will that the three of them had to live together for a year?
- After Will’s death, Lauren seemed to lose who she was. Has there been an event in your life that had a similar effect? What did you do to feel like yourself again?
- As Alice said, there’s three sides to every story. What do you think is the real reason Eleanor avoided Lauren? Was she right to have done so?
- What might have happened if Knox, Alice, and Lauren hadn’t found Eleanor’s emails to her sister? Would they have ended up as close?
- Do you think Eleanor intended for them to find the emails?
