In 2005, Wells wrote Ya-Yas in Bloom and then The Crowning Glory of Calla Lily Ponder.

Wells stated the novel had little resemblance to her own life and the only autobiographical element was the name of a dog included in the story.

Vivi's high school sweetheart is Teensy's brother Jacques "Jack" Whitman, who is killed during World War II.

Teensy is fun-loving and enjoys taking her clothes off—as a child, for play, and as an adult, as part of a striptease act she does for her friends.

She is happily married to Chick Claiborne, her high school sweetheart, and has two children, Jack and Genny.

Crowned "Countess Singing Cloud," Necie is the gentlest, most steady member of the sisterhood.

Buggy was always jealous of the attention and love Taylor showered upon Vivi, enough to even falsely accuse her of incest as a teenager.

In 1932, Vivi and the Ya-Yas were disqualified from a Shirley Temple Look-Alike Contest for unladylike behavior.

They persuade Vivi to send Sidda a scrapbook of girlhood mementos entitled "Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood."

Sidda retreats to a cabin on Washington State's Olympic Peninsula, tormented by fear and uncertainty about the future, and intent on discovering a key to the tangle of anger and tenderness she feels toward her mother.

But the album reveals more questions than answers, and leads Sidda to encounter the unknowable mystery of life and the legacy of imperfect love.

Director Callie Khouri adapted Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood into a film in 2002.

Sandra Bullock (Sidda) and Ellen Burstyn (Vivi) starred as the two main characters of the film as well as James Garner (Big Shep) and Maggie Smith (Caro).