Last summer I was introduced to the Chick Lit genre. I read some Jane Green stuff and a book by Elin Hilderbrand. It was good for passing an afternoon on the beach. Well I just finished Green's latest - Dune Road. Wow. I often suggest to the kids that every story starts with the question, "What if...." Suffice it to say, Jane Green asked a lot of what ifs (there is a bit of a spoiler ahead but what I give away is fairly predictable): What if the main character is recently divorced, has a distant mother who has rejected her from birth, falls in love with Steve who is actually Jed, her best friend's conniving ex-husband while finding out that she also has a half sister she never knew about who grew up in England. And that's only half of it. Jane Green lives in Westport and draws a fairly harsh picture of life on the Gold Coast. As most of you know, I am not an expert on family life in Fairfield County but allow me to say, if even just a little bit of the story has some truth there's some exciting stuff going on :-)
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