Synopses & Reviews
Where can a 40-ish woman turn when her marriage has gone stale and her kids treat her like an unpaid chauffeur? In Beth Riordan's case, it's to cyberspace. She takes a zany romp with love through wry, revelatory emails to Thomas, her handsome neighbor in a New England suburb, a travel writer in the middle of a divorce.
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"Refracted at dizzying speed and with wicked, zany humor, it's like stumbling on a stranger's journal you'll read it at a single sitting, start to finish. No guilt, only delight." Alexandra Johnson The Hidden Writer
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"Claire Cook's wit and intelligence grace every page, and her narrator's adventures are at once thought-provoking and enormously entertaining. Fresh and full of pizazz, Cook's novel is simply irresistible." Helen Fremont After Long Silence
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"As Beth Riordan keeps pounding her keyboard, her story accumulates layers -- seasoned always with humor and heart that build to a surprising ending that feels just right. Cook's voice is pitch perfect. Bells rang for me on each and every page." Mameve Medwed The End of an Error, Host Family, Mail
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"Reading Claire Cook's novel is like eating some exotic dish about which you say, 'Wow, this is great! What's in it?' The ingredients here are: intelligence, humor, poignancy, revelation and, perhaps best of all, true originality." Elizabeth Berg Open House, Pull of the Moon
Synopsis
A witty tale of marriage and midlife longing, as a taken-for-granted wife pursues a fantasy love via e-mail.
About the Author
Claire Cook is the bestselling author of three novels, Multiple Choice, Must Love Dogs and Ready to Fall. She has been a judge for the Thurber Prize for American Humor and is a member of the Cape Cod Writers Center faculty. She lives on the South Shore of Massachusetts with her husband, two teenagers and their dog, where she is currently hard at work on her fourth novel, which has a Hollywood twist.