Once More with Feeling ANNOTATION
While planning her 15th wedding aniversary party, Laura Briggs turns on Donahue to discover her husband confessing his "secret life" to millions of TV viewers. By the first commercial break, Laura decides her marriage is over. Yet, her life is just beginning. From the author of Temptation. Original.
FROM THE PUBLISHER
"A wonderful voice, fresh and poignant and funny, stingingly real and magically readable."
—Anne Rivers Siddons
While planning her fifteenth wedding anniversary party, Laura Briggs turns on Donahue to discover her husband confessing his "secret life" to millions of TV viewers. By the first commercial break, Laura decides her marriage is over.
Yet her life is just beginning, complete with Wednesday night divorce support groups and a growing anxiety that her son is spending too much time with imaginary superheroes. And when she stumbles upon her ex-husband shopping for sexy underwear (size small), she takes an impulsive trip to Alaska. (Could things get any colder?) The getaway gives her time to stop and smell the . . . moose—and open her eyes to a new man who may well be worth risking her heart for all over again.
Cynthia Blair's fresh, witty, heartfelt perspective on the pitfalls and passions of modern womanhood shine in this irrepressible novel of a divorced mother who dares to love . . . once more with feeling.
FROM THE CRITICS
Publishers Weekly
In a witty, vibrantly alive narrative, Blair (Temptation) delivers an honest portrait of divorce as protagonist Laura Briggs ends her 15-year marriage and optimistically attempts to begin life anew. "Such freedom!" she thinks, "to be in total control of one's destiny, one's schedule, one's dietary habits." Laura quickly learns that starting over isn't that easy: her son resents her, her friends are self-absorbed, support groups are filled with quirky singles and a "date" is a four-letter word. What she needs, Laura decides, is a change, a tranquil sojourn to Alaska with an ecology group called the World Watchers. She doesn't want much-just a few days to take stock of her life. Instead she finds primitive living conditions, leeches, orphaned baby moose and a bearded Yukon Jack-look-alike named Dr. Cam Woodward, who offers romance Alaska-style. This book is a must for anyone who has ever considered divorce, and a joy for all who haven't. (Mar.)
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