Actually more substantial than Lillie’s, truth be told. The story is told in first person by Lillie with occasional contributions from “the whore” who has a substantial journey of her own. The book begins as our heroine, a happily married mother of a son about to leave for college in far away Montana learns that her husband, Brad, “out of the clear blue sky”, tells her he is leaving her for a beautiful, younger, and wealthy woman, Melissa. But the journey to that end is a very minor aspect of Lillie’s personal journey. The book concludes with our heroine in a satisfying hopeful relationship with a great guy. I say, “in some ways.” Her first books were definitely romantic comedies while incorporating emotional serious issues along with the fun. It was great to see that a beloved author can, in a sense, “go home again” no matter what Thomas Wolfe says. As much as I love and even esteem her more recent books, (4 out of 7 were 5-star reads for me)I welcomed her return to her days of yore. I could tell from the git-go that Kristan Higgins’ new book, in some ways, was a return to her lighter fare of yesteryear after her recent forays into more serious women’s fiction.
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