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Elinor Mackey has always done the right things in the right order -- college, law school, career, marriage -- but now everything's going wrong. After two painful years of trying, Elinor has learned that she can't have children. All the doctors can tell her is that it's probably because of her age. As she turns forty, she withdraws into an interior world of heartbreak. Elinor's loving husband, Ted, a successful podiatrist, has always done the right thing, too. Then he meets the wrong woman at the wrong time, and does the wrong thing. Ted's lover, Gina -- a beautiful and kindhearted nutritionist -- always eats the right thing, but is unlucky in love and always falls for the wrong men. Soon Ted has to fight to make everything right again. Can Elinor and Ted's marriage be saved? The answer is alarmingly fresh and unexpected as New York Times bestselling author Lolly Winston introduces us to characters as memorable as those of Anne Tyler and Nick Hornby, but who are indelibly all her own.
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Cindy R. (
7 member(s) found this review helpful.
Loved it. Slow start, but by the time I got to the middle I could not put it down. About infertility and the toll it takes on a couple as well as infidelity. I really felt bad for the 10 year old boy who's parents were never in the same home with him and the feeling of not being wanted by his dad. In the end the main character feels great empathy for everyone, including he husbands mistress.
This arthor has a very good writing style and I loved the way she took it back and forth between the characters points of view.
I debated on saving this book in my keeper shelf but I believe that I should put it out there to be shared with other PBS readers.
Gail G. (
7 member(s) found this review helpful.
Kept me engrossed, even though the plot twists at times were a bit unbelievable. Interesting cast of characters; sympathies alternated back and forth among them all. Covers all the bases: infertility, extra-martial affair, stages of a marriage, boy trying desperately to make his world 'right'...
7 member(s) found this review helpful.
Great book! I enjoyed how infidelity was viewed from all perspectives and there was no one guilty person, just the realism of life. The characters came alive and were all relatable.
6 member(s) found this review helpful.
this is a really good book.it will make you laugh and cry and it is realistic in that these things have probably happened to a few of us.
4 member(s) found this review helpful.
This was a really great story and I really felt for all the characters. I liked how the story switched points of view. I was a little disappointed in the ending because it never resolved which couples would be together, but I guess tht's life sometimes.
Lynda C. (
4 member(s) found this review helpful.
Well-written story about a couple struggling with both infertility and infidelity.
Kristin G. (
4 member(s) found this review helpful.
Excellent store, moving story line, well developed charcters. This story is about love, marriage, loss, cheating, finding one's own self, and learning to live. Truly an amazing read!
1 member(s) found this review helpful.
This book was good. It seemed somewhat predicitable but overall a good summer read.
Marianne S. (
1 member(s) found this review helpful.
Not nearly as good as Good Grief, the ending to me was non existent. It just left too many unanswered questions. I cared for the characters and enjoyed the story, but just felt left down at the end.
1 member(s) found this review helpful.
As a writer for the Washington Post so aptly said in her review of the book, "There are no good guys or bad guys in this tale of modern love - just real characters with real flaws, who are entirely human and utterly sympathetic."
Good, well-written, believable story that keeps you wanting to know what happens to the characters next!
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My first foray into reading Winston, and I have already ordered one more from the club. This was a wonderful book that did not follow the usual conclusions about people and their actions. I found myself wanting to dislike some of them but unable to because Winston knows that people are seldom all good or bad. Winston shows us various sides of each of the main characters in the story and their personal motivations, and that was refreshing. She allows us to draw our own conclusions, and she made me think much more deeply about possibilities.
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