2/18/2023 0 Comments Jane greenbooks![]() While most chick-lit stories are about finding and keeping a man, this one touched on family, intimacy, and overbearing parents. My thoughts: I have read many of Jane Green’s books and find them to be funny, light-hearted chick lit. In The Other Woman, Jane Green delivers a warm, witty, and touching look at mothers-in-law and marriage and what they teach us about ourselves. ![]() ![]() But it seems that having a child and saving a marriage means growing up in ways she’d never imagined. When a crisis strains family bonds, Ellie turns to her friends – glamorous Lisa, who always looks like she’s just stepped off a runway, and wonderfully frazzled Trish – and tries to rediscover the independence she once had and the man she still loves. When she discovers she’s pregnant, she realizes that Linda has only been rehearsing for the real takeover. But then Ellie starts to wonder, how has the intimate civil ceremony she always dreamed of turned into a black-tie affair? And what can Dan and his mother possibly have to talk about on the phone twice a day?Įllie’s problems have just begun. Dan does – a very involved mother.Īt first, Ellie is thrilled to be accepted into the loving Cooper clan and have Dan’s mom, Linda, as her “adopted” mother. He loves sports’ she’s allergic to any form of exercise. ![]() She’s impulsive he follows all the rules. From the back of the audio case: Ellie and Dan are living proof that opposites attract. ![]()
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