Chronicles of a Midlife Crisis

Lucy was shocked when her husband, Trent, announced he was leaving her. They’d built the perfect life together! They had a beautiful daughter! A covetable home! Lucy had maintained her figure! How could he walk away from it all?

Trent knew he couldn’t continue his “hamster wheel existence”. He and Lucy hadn’t been connected in years. They’d just been coexisting, going through the motions… His sexy colleague, Annika had nothing to do with it!

With alternating perspectives, "Chronicles of a Midlife Crisis" examines both sides of a break-up. As Lucy and Trent vacillate between wanting to kill each other, moving back in together and moving on (with other people), they must deal with their teenage daughter’s anger and rebellion. At times hilarious and heartbreaking, this novel takes an in-depth look at the dissolution of a relationship. No one said marriage was easy. But breaking up may be even harder.

REVIEWS: Harding (Unravelled) takes a hilarious warts-and-all look at the breakup of Lucy and Trent, and its effect on their sullen 15-year-old daughter, Sam. In alternating chapters written by the combatants, Trent whines about the need to figure out "grown-up, man stuff" rather than stay mired in a "hamster-wheel existence" while Lucy rails at Trent's "curly-haired cow" of a girlfriend and considers her own risky revenge-romance with a TV heartthrob who's 13 years her junior--and Sam's ultimate crush. Sam, meanwhile, in a picture-perfect take of angsty adolescence, desperately manipulates her sparring parents. The trio, their lovers, friends, and colleagues are all lovable screwups, and the lessons learned by Lucy, Trent, and Sam lend a pleasant note of poignancy to the madcap antics.”
—Publishers Weekly