Luanne Rice's best-selling novel about love, loss and life lessons, "Beach Girls," is the perfect fodder for a female-friendly weekly six-hour television series from Lifetime -- long enough for viewers to get richly involved in the characters' lives, brief enough not to run into too many glitches in the script. All told, at least from what the first two episodes show us, "Beach Girls" is not a half-bad way to spend a few summer nights. Rob Lowe plays high-powered Boston attorney Jack Kilvert, a recent widower and father of a grown teen (that part is a little hard to swallow at first, but you'll get used to it).

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