March 2010
On Sale: March 1, 2010
464 pages
ISBN: 0373230877
EAN: 9780373230877
Paperback
$14.95
Romance Contemporary
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Around The Bend
by Shirley Jump
Thelma and Louise they're not.
First of all, Hilary and Rosemary Delaney are not friends—worse, they're mother and daughter. Hilary's a wayward thirty-something running from a marriage proposal, and Rosemary's her disapproving mother, a retired lawyer who can't drive and won't fly.
So they're driving together across country.
In a cherry-red Mustang.
With a potbellied pig named Reginald, and a life-size cutout of Rosemary's late husband.
Should be a fun trip.
As the miles tick by, Hilary ponders why the word "marriage" has her so terrified and finds she's got a lot to learn—about her mother, love and life in general. Together, Hilary and Rosemary will discover what's around the bend…if they don't drive each other crazy, or drive off a cliff first.
Excerpt
I stood on the cracked, weed-framed sidewalk outside the white clapboard house on the busy street in Dorchester where I'd grown up, car keys in hand, and made three promises:
1. I would not kill my mother
2. I would not kill myself
3. And no matter what, I would not talk about that incident in 1998.
My mother came down the porch stairs, toting a massive indestructible-as-hell and black-as-coal Samsonite suitcase in her right hand. "You're seven minutes early," she said, as if arriving early were a crime.
She looked bright and fresh, even though her pixie-faced Anne Klein watch had yet to tick its way to seven o'clock. I, on the other hand, felt like a cat had dragged me out of bed Read More...
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