Synopses & Reviews
Goodbye downward dog... When Kennedy's husband, Frank, up and leaves her for his high school ex, a surfer named Sunny, then announces he's going to quit the law firm to teach yoga, Kennedy is finally free to do what she's always wanted to do with her life. Now if she can only figure out what that is. Determined to bring the spirit and independence of her former self to her life as a suburban mom, Kennedy visits some of her old New York City haunts, including Declan McGlynn's -- the Greenwich Village bar where she used to work. Lo, Declan himself is behind the bar -- and he's just as sexy...and single...as ever.
Hello downtown Don Juan...
Kennedy and Declan were friends for years and lovers for one amazing night before Kennedy, a single mom at the time, picked stability over passion. Back then Declan wasn't exactly the marrying kind. But that was a long time ago, and a lot has changed -- except for the connection between these two. It's enough to prove that whoever said "you can never go back" is flat-out wrong. Right?
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Jacquelyn Mitchard This witty first novel...is utterly charming.
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Jacquelyn MitchardThis witty first novel...is utterly charming.
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Alice Elliott Dark I love, love, love The Man I Should Have Married. Pamela Redmond Satran has captured Kennedy's dilemma with energy and wit. I couldn't put it down.
Synopsis
Kennedy Smith used to be a hip chick. She lived in the "dangerous" Lower East Side of New York City, had a child with a sexy -- if substance-addicted -- lover, and had one night of wild, passionate sex with her boss, Declan McGlynn.
But that was a long time ago. Now Kennedy is thirty-something and more "sex every other Saturday" than "Sex and the City." After her husband leaves her for another woman and quits his successful law practice to teach yoga, she has her own soul-searching to do as a newly single woman.
Determined to find the Kennedy she was, she visits New York City and her old watering hole -- owned by none other than her last one-night stand, the dashing playboy Declan. Declan and Kennedy take up where they left off ten years earlier, but life still gets in the way: her daughter wants to find her ne'er-do-well biological father, the new "affordable" house she downsizes to is a major money trap, and Declan doesn't come to their relationship as baggage-free as he claimed. Can Kennedy reclaim the life she knows she deserves?
About the Author
Pamela Redmond Satran is the author of Younger, Babes in Captivity, and The Man I Should Have Married. She lives in New Jersey with her husband, who is an editor for Reuters, and their three children. The coauthor of the bestselling baby-naming books Beyond Jennifer & Jason, Madison & Montana, and Cool Names, Satran is a regular contributor to Glamour, Good Housekeeping, and Parenting. Visit her website at PamelaRedmondSatran.com.