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"Warm writing and [a] realistic portrayal of the choices women continue to face . " - Publishers Weekly "With just the right blend of heartfelt feminism and humor, British author Buchan crafts another women's -crisis story that accurately captures the doubts and fears about personal fulfillment experienced and rarely resolved by two generations of women " - Booklist "Honestly explores the difficulties of marriage... while at the same time depicting the difficult moments of motherhood along with the quiet joys. " - The Washington Post " With just the right blend of heartfelt feminism and humor, British author Buchan (Revenge of the Middle-Aged Woman, 2003) crafts another women’s-crisis story that accurately captures the doubts and fears about personal fulfillment experienced and rarely resolved by two generations of women. The drama begins with Sienna, a young, successful British fashion consultant in the present, whose “psycho-situation” with her husband, Charlie, centers on his desire for children and hers to pursue a television opportunity in the U.S. Then the camera pans to Barbara, who, in 1959, meets an attractive younger man and suddenly finds her life as a well-groomed farmwife constricting. In alternating chapters, Buchan uses these two women’s experiences to portray women’s changing values in the twentieth century, from home and family to career and family, and the difficulties real women have in balancing their suddenly disparate priorities. Without falling into trite stereotypes, Buchan affectionately reveals Sienna and Barbara in a thoughtful mélange of scenes that most women will find compelling"- Jennifer Baker - Booklist "What makes Buchan such a joy to read is her ability to take familiar material and probe it for new insights. For well-done domestic drama, there is only one writer for this reader" - USA Today "Elizabeth Buchan needs to write more books, as quickly as possible" - Detroit Free Press "Buchan brilliantly conveys "the road not taken"... and give us the sense that this is the stuff of brutal struggle"- Seattle Times
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