Lolly Winston Knihy

V době, kdy se od žen očekává, že budou maximálně úspěšné, si šestatřicetiletá Sophie Stantonová zoufale přeje být ukázkovou vdovou – půvabnou a vyrovnanou vdovou ve stylu Jackie Kennedyové. Bohužel se jí podobá jen velmi vzdáleně. Ke snídani pořádá kartony zmrzliny, kolabuje v supermarketech, vrazí do práce v županu a růžových pantoflích se zajíčkem… Brzy nebude jen bez manžela, ale taky bez práce, střechy nad hlavou a štíhlého pasu. V zoufalé snaze opět ovládnout svůj život, se Sophie stěhuje do Ashlandu v Oregonu. Ale ani tam to není jednoduché…

Grieving over the death of her husband from cancer, thirty-six-year-old Sophie Stanton finds her personal and professional world in a shambles and, in an attempt to reinvent her life, moves to Ashland, Oregon, where she encounters a troubled thirteen-year-old girl, a job as the Salad Girl at the local restaurant, and a cute actor as she struggles to recover. A first novel. 150,000 first printing.

Elinor Mackey has always done the right things in the right order -- college, law school, career, marriage -- but now everything's going wrong. After two painful years of trying, Elinor has learned that she can't have children. All the doctors can tell her is that it's probably because of her age. As she turns forty, she withdraws into an interior world of heartbreak. Elinor's loving husband, Ted, a successful podiatrist, has always done the right thing, too. Then he meets the wrong woman at the wrong time, and does the wrong thing. Ted's lover, Gina -- a beautiful and kindhearted nutritionist -- always eats the right thing, but is unlucky in love and always falls for the wrong men. Soon Ted has to fight to make everything right again. Can Elinor and Ted's marriage be saved? The answer is alarmingly fresh and unexpected as New York Times bestselling author Lolly Winston introduces us to characters as memorable as those of Anne Tyler and Nick Hornby, but who are indelibly all her own.