It's the day mothers either look forward to, or dread.
Hallie Pierpont's daughter Emily is eighteen-years-old, and
has moved into the college dormitory. That's it, the last
baby. Finally Hallie and her husband can give each other the
undivided attention sorely missed during their career
building and child rearing years. Except now that their two
children have flown the coup, Bill announces with as much
finesse as a mediocre actor at a school recital that he
wants a divorce. If that isn't the worst of it, he hands her
the car keys, steps out of the car, and into his new life
with his new much younger girlfriend.
After a period of mourning and binging on way too many Oreo
cookies, Hallie does some deep soul searching. If she made a
mistake with her husband of over twenty years, who's to say
that she didn't make a mistake with the earlier men that she
had loved? What if she had chosen another? Where would they
be now? How different would her life have been?
There were four different men that she had lost her heart to
before changing her mind and settling down with her husband.
If there was a way to meet each again, would she? Could she?
On a disastrous hiking trip, her savior turns out to be a
good friend of Eric Richmond, now a wealthy, business driven
man. If she had wanted a man capable of providing her with
the best of everything, Eric would be her man. When Eric
calls and asks her out, it'll be good to remember old times.
Thus the search begins for her first loves.
Returning to college from Europe, Hallie promised to keep in
communication with Barry Stern. It isn't long before his
colorful, worldly, and artistic letters stopped coming, and
hers had been returned to sender. He simply dropped from
sight. So with the help of a private detective, he's found.
Breaking the long silence, she introduces herself to him again.
His name is Kevin Talbert. Her first love lives in Virgin
Gorda. What this man lacks in his portfolio, he makes up for
in stamina. Stella's Groove is nothing compared to Hallie
when Kevin enters the picture. Readers get yourself a tall
drink before you read these scenes.
Eric, Barry, Kevin, Dick, or Bill? Whom would Hallie choose?
Even her children get into the act causing confusion and
misunderstandings. I kept turning the pages in this
emotional searing and fun packed novel. I wondered
throughout the book: Would Hallie re-new a love? Would she
get back with Bill? Or would she move on? Janice Kaplan and
Lynn Schnumberger do a good job in answering these questions
to a satisfying conclusion in THE MEN I DIDN'T MARRY.
Following the unexpected demise of her marriage, Hallie
Lawrence Pierpont decides to travel down memory lane to
visit the great loves of her past. But will her past lead
her to the great love of her future?
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