The stepmothers' support group
By: Sam Baker
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 2009
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 408
ISBN-13: 9780007302543
Subjects: Stepmothers; Fiction; Female friendship
Description: Eve has never imagined herself as a stepmother. But when she falls in love with Ian, he comes with a ready-made family of three children. And, to make matters worse, the ghost of his glamorous and well known wife haunts them. This is a novel about female friendship.
Table of contents: title: You can't choose your family; title: but you can choose your friends...A sensational new novel about female friendship set to garner huge PR coverage. Natalie is a magazine journalist whose lover is a widower with three children; title: three children who absolutely do not want a new woman in their life. After a disastrous first meeting, Natalie turns to her best friend Clare for advice. Clare, a single mother and teacher, tries her best to counsel Natalie, but suggests she should talk to her younger sister, Lily, who is in the same boat aged only 23. After a reluctant coffee, the women concede that they've enjoyed themselves. Then, to Natalie's shock, one of her colleagues refers a friend to her 'stepmothers' support group'; title: and the group is born! As the story unfolds, five very different women share their hopes and fears, their love lives, their ambitions; title: and their feelings about their new family. Through it all, their new friends provide a sympathetic ear, advice and someone to laugh with. You can't choose your family; title: but you can choose your friends.