1. Main character is named Claire Danner Crispin. She lives in Nantucket. The perfect woman: she has a successful
and devoted husband, four children and she is an artist. (She is a glass blower with a piece displayed in the Whitney Museum.) BUT, she has stopped her art work because she has no free time dealing with the children, even though she has an au pair (not a nanny!). Claire is also tightly wound and guilty about everything in her life.2. Husband (who used to be perfect) now likes to watch TV and drink beer.
3. Claire's former boyfriend is one of the world's biggest rock stars.
4. Claire is appointed to be in charge of a fundraiser (they want her former boyfriend to play a benefit) and she gets the hots for her co-chairman.
5. They have an affair and Claire's life goes into meltdown over the guilt.
Trust me, the book is even worse than the description sounds. It is filled with shallow and pretentious people who think they are down-to-earth. Claire has guilt-breakdowns over every little detail in her life. She is so unlikeable that any man who would want to have an sexual relationship with her is not a man I'd like to know.
BIBLIO SAYS: Avoid, or you'll feel as guilty as Claire, and just as screwed.
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