Before Amanda Appleby’s rise comes the fall...
When Amanda Appleby catches her husband messing with the belly dancer hired for his fiftieth birthday party, her once-perfectly curated life crashes down. With her marriage in ruins and little money from the property settlement, Amanda finds herself fifty, divorced, and broke.
Amanda retreats to her family’s charming cottage in Cornwall to regroup and hits on a way to make money. She writes a book about how to renovate and sell a house. Peppered with cynical tips from Amanda’s own failed marriage, the book goes viral. Hailed as the “Marie Kondo for the Unhappily Married Woman,” Amanda is thrust into stardom. Invited as a contestant on a dating show, she meets Jack Walker, the show’s crabby—but surprisingly kind-hearted—scriptwriter and Amanda discovers that maybe romance isn’t dead after all.
But when she’s enlisted as the public face of a man-hating site, suddenly Amanda’s success turns toxic, threatening to derail both her career and her newfound relationship. But Amanda is no longer the dutiful wife she once was. Can the woman Amanda has become find it in herself to keep her star rising?
My Review:
Starting over later in life.
After Amanda’s marriage hits rock bottom, she claws her way
back to the top by moving to her parent’s cottage in St. Ives, Cornwall, where
she makes new friends and rediscovers who she is. She even finds love along the way in the most
unexpected place.
I enjoyed seeing Amanda’s transition from the glamorous life of a wife of a popular cosmetic surgeon, to starting over with pretty much nothing. She has quite the adventure along the way. The story is set in Cornwall and Santorini and the author was quite descriptive of each location adding something extra to the story. There was some fun and witty dialogue along with the sad parts where Amanda learns of her husband’s infidelity. There is an amazing happily ever after too. This is an all-around great book and I truly enjoyed it.
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