On the night before their son’s high school graduation, Lillie can’t wait to tell her husband about the European vacation she booked for them. Except, Lillie’s husband tells her he’s leaving her for another woman. Bradley (no longer Brad) needs to find his own joy. After twenty years of marriage, he no longer feels joy with Lillie.
Neither Lillie nor Bradley want to ruin the summer for their son, so Lillie’s forced to keep up the pretenses of a happy family. But she’s seething inside. Once her son leaves for college, all bets are off. Petty behavior ensues.
As the fall marches on, Lillie takes a long look at her life and the people in it. She adopts a dog. She allows her father’s first mate, Ben, to stay in the cottage on the property throughout the winter so she won’t be alone.
Life has a funny way of changing everything but turning it upside down might not be the worst thing ever for Lillie. Yes, her family is broken, but maybe she will discover a silver lining in the mess.
Kristan Higgins knows how to suck readers into the story and not let them go. She’s a master at evoking emotions – anger and hatred, to support and love, and to the ability to wrap characters into a great big hug. Readers, like myself, who look forward to a new Kristan Higgins book each Spring will not be disappointed.
From New York Times bestselling author Kristan Higgins comes a funny and surprising new novel about losing it all—and getting back more than you ever expected.
Lillie Silva knew life as an empty nester would be hard after her only child left for college, but when her husband abruptly dumps her for another woman just as her son leaves, her world comes crashing down. Besides the fact that this announcement is a complete surprise (to say the least), what shocks Lillie most is that she isn’t heartbroken. She’s furious.
Lillie has loved her life on Cape Cod, but as a mother, wife, and nurse-midwife, she’s used to caring for other people . . . not taking care of herself. Now, alone for the first time in her life, she finds herself going a little rogue. Is it over the top to crash her ex-husband’s wedding dressed like the angel of death? Sure! Should she release a skunk into his perfect new home? Probably not! But it beats staying home and moping.
She finds an unexpected ally in her glamorous sister, with whom she’s had a tense relationship all these years. And an unexpected babysitter in, of all people, Ben Hallowell, the driver in a car accident that nearly killed Lillie twenty years ago. And then there’s Ophelia, her ex-husband’s oddly lost niece, who could really use a friend.
It’s the end of Lillie’s life as she knew it. But sometimes the perfect next chapter surprises you . . . out of the clear blue sky.
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