The Other Woman
by Jane Green
Pub. June 2006
trade paperback | US $14 | ISBN: 0452287146
paperback| UK £7.99 | ISBN: 9780140295955
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Ellie and Dan are living proof that opposites attract. She’s impulsive; he follows all the rules. He loves sports; she’s allergic to any form of exercise. Ellie doesn’t have a mother. Dan does — a very involved mother.
At first, Ellie is thrilled to be accepted into the loving Cooper clan and have Dan’s mom, Linda, as her “adopted” mother. 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?
Ellie’s problems have just begun. When she discovers she’s pregnant, she realizes that Linda has only been rehearsing for the real takeover. Linda seems to want to live her life through Ellie and, in the words of the immortal Princess Diana, there are three of them in the marriage.
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. But it seems that having a child and saving a marriage means growing up in ways she’d never imagined.
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.
Reviews for The Other Woman: A Novel:
from the UK edition:
“Utterly compulsive” –Company
“A must-read for anyone who’s ever experienced over zealous in-laws” –Glamour
“Jane Green is just the perfect chick-lit author. It’s a much bandied about term, but this is the purest, distilled version of the genre…we never fail to find ourselves moved — to hysterical laughter as well as tears — by Jane Green’s heroines. And you can quote us on that’ –Heat
“With a style that’s conspiratorial, warm and involving, her tale will send a shiver down the spines of brides everywhere” –Mirror
“Another compelling page-turner from start to finish” –Daily Express
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