Book request: 90s or early 2000s adult fiction, female author. Somewhat literary but not highbrow. I think the cover was pale pink or peach coloured.The opening chapter/s were about a woman waiting for her high school or college friends to arrive at her apartment for a reunion. She lived in New York and it was very cold, so she was wondering if her friends would make it. I think there was some reference to a secret she was going to tell them, or an announcement she was going to make (possibly to do with pregnancy or childbirth?)There may have been later chapters from the other characters' perspectives once they arrived at the apartment. They were all youngish, in their 20s or 30s, and all female. I think the group had drifted apart somewhat in the years before the reunion. There may have been one character who was conspicuously absent, or turned up very late. I think a few people were keeping secrets or holding grudges against each other, which gradually came out during the course of the book. It wasn't very dramatic though - no big fights or violence, just a lot of feelings coming out. Any help with this appreciated. It's not The Reunion by Amy Silver although it has some similiarities.

Matching book description: Manhattan, the coldest night of the year -- six best friends rush to attend a celebration. Blown by wind and snow, the women arrive flushed, each caught in midadventure...Tonight's the night of nights -- to rejoice in a new lover, leave an unfaithful husband, or decide to have a baby on one's own. These "six in the city" profes-sional women fight for their female choices.  Manhattan, the coldest night of the year -- six best friends rush to attend a celebration. Blown by wind and snow, the women arrive flushed, each caught in midadventure...Tonight's the night of nights -- to rejoice in a new lover, leave an unfaithful husband, or decide to have a baby on one's own. These "six in the city" profes-sional women fight for their female choices. Sparks and zingers fly across the table... Love lives, secrets, and friendships go up in candle flame.  Who will win -- the romantics or the realists? How can working women triumph in such trying times? While the cell phones chime and the biological clocks rewind, the friends enact a timeless ceremony. Here is our urban "friends-as-family" generation --  is a dazzling comedy of manners in the grand tradition of Dorothy Parker and Mary McCarthy. ...more