Description: Alice's apparent dream marriage is being stifled by her husband Joe's infidelities and his demand that she transform her preferred relaxed style into a more manicured, conventionally feminine, perfect-wife image. But she gets a new lease...
Synopsis Alice's apparent dream marriage is being stifled by her husband Joe's infidelities and his demand that she transform her preferred relaxed style into a more manicured, conventionally feminine, perfect-wife image. But she gets a new lease on life when Joe's indiscreet behavior forces them to move from London to the U.S., and Alice has the opportunity to fix up a house in rural Connecticut...and pursue romance with her best friend's boyfriend. This addition to the chick lit genre was a bestseller in England.
Details
Publication Date:
2004-05-01
Narrated by:
Elizabeth Sastre
Edition Description:
Abridged
Size
Length:
1 pages
Height:
6.0 in
Width:
4.5 in
Thickness:
1.2 in
Weight:
4.0 oz
Publisher's Note Setting aside her dreams of living a grass-roots life in the English countryside, Alice accepts the proposal of wealthy man-about-town Joe, who shatters Alice's romantic ideals by criticizing her looks and cheating on her before an indiscretion forces them to move to a country house in America. Simultaneous.