The Men I Didn't Marry

May 1, 2006
In their third collaboration, Kaplan and Schnurnberger stick to the breezy style they created in "The Botox Diaries" and "Mine Are Spectacular!" After emptying her nest, Hallie Lawrence Pierpont is looking forward to reconnecting with her husband of 20 years. But then he dumps her for his fitness guru, and Hallie decides to get busy. A serendipitous meeting with the friend of one of her ex-boyfriends gives her an idea: Hallie is going to reconnect with all the men she didn -t marry, starting with millionaire Eric; spiritual guru Barry; and her high school sweetheart, Kevin. Hallie -s quest takes her to California and an exotic island, but when all is said and done she finds what she wants back in New York. Though her husband leaves her with no warning and she finds herself living alone for the first time in her adult life, Hallie manages the changes in her life with little angst. This is too little, however, to make the novel anything but a pleasant read -fun while it lasts but easily forgotten. Light women -s fiction for larger public library collections. [See Prepub Alert, "LJ" 1/06.]" -Jane Jorgenson, Madison P.L., WI"

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April 15, 2006
Hallie, a fortysomething successful lawyer and mother of two college kids, is devastated when her husband of 21 years tells her that he is leaving her for a woman half her age, named Ashlee--with two " e"(Reprinted with permission of Booklist, copyright 2006, American Library Association.)