The Women in White: A Novel by Sarah Pekkanen was a really fun idea for a book. It involved psychic ability experiments at a college in the 1960s and the current life of one of the participants in old age when a woman becomes her companion/carer.

I appreciated all of the details and the endnotes about the real experiments and psychic tests that inspired it.

Betty’s story was so interesting and I loved the details of her time capsule of a house.

I did feel like the scenes in the 1960s came entirely from woman’s magazines of the era and not from talking to actual women of the time. They felt flat to me and it was weird that all four girls were so similar in their relationships with men.

I liked the growth of the main character and the tie-in of trusting your instincts and psychic ability. So many woman would have been helped if they trusted themselves. The participants knew something was wrong with what was happening but went along with them anyway to their own detriment. In the current timeline, down on her luck Riley knew something was off about her husband on the first dates yet ignored it and then ended up basically living in her vehicle until she met Betty.

I got this via NetGalley and it comes out in August. It would be a great summer read—easy to read but interesting enough to keep you engaged.