Georgie and Nick Symonds have fashioned a rather unique
married life. Nick is an up and coming player as a Wall
Street attorney. Georgie is the creator and facilitator of a
think tank organization in suburban Connecticut. Nick
commutes to work in a seaplane. Georgie seems rather
secluded while living close to her mother, grandmother and
sister. Just as she is garnering well deserved attention and
financial backing for her work it becomes obvious that she
is also becoming more obsessed with her feelings of mistrust
toward her ambitious and often absentee husband. The fact
that Nicks traveling partner is an equally ambitious, bright
and beautiful co-worker adds to her feelings of insecurity.
Georgie's organization, the Swift Observatory, studies human
reactions to changes in their lives. One of her first
studies involves a woman who confronts the other woman in
her husband's life. What started out as an expression of
outrage and hurt winds up as a case of unintended or at
least unplanned violence in the form of a knife attack -- a
butter knife attack to be more accurate. Quite often you
find yourself wondering whether these stories of heartache
and tragedy aren't just filling Georgie with more angst
toward her husband and concern about her own married life.
But then again all marriages have their ups and downs and
the successful ones have learned to weather them. That seems
to be the important message that she has to learn. The
question is whether she will get it before inadvertently
destroying her marriage.
Luanne Rice intricately weaves the family story of Georgie
and Nick and their extended families with the cases that the
Swift Observatory studies. At times the cases are truly more
interesting and certainly more intriguing then the family's
lives. Sometimes Rice belabors the point that this marriage
has some serious issues to resolve -- perhaps that is the
point. But this is truly a book about changes and how these
changes affect our lives. Some changes are just more
noteworthy than others but add in the human factor they seem
more important then they really are in fact. How we react to
changes is the point of the book. Perhaps that's what Rice
meant in calling this book CRAZY IN LOVE. Does love make us
crazy or do we drive ourselves crazy in our search for the
perfect love, relationship, married, family life, etc. The
magic word is perfect -- nothing is perfect. No love, no
relationship, no marriage and certainly no family so why
make yourself crazy -- just live with it and the changes that
are bound to occur. It's just life after all.
Georgie Symonds didn’t think anything could shake her
perfect marriage. She and Nick were meant for each other,
everyone said so, and their life on the Connecticut shore,
among Georgie’s close-knit family, is picture-perfect. But
lately Nick has been consumed with his job on Wall Street,
and Georgie finds herself plagued with suspicions too awful
to contemplate. To distract herself, she plunges into her
work with the Swift Observatory, examining the stories of
people whose lives have been changed by unexpected tragedy.
But it’s when a handsome stranger arrives on her doorstep
that Georgie learns firsthand that when your dreams are in
danger of collapsing, it’s time to create new ones.…
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