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March Monroe endures her daughter's animosity when they wind up sharing a radio station internship, a situation that is complicated by her tired marriage, her angry adolescent son, and a mid-life crush. By the author of Must Love Dogs. 60,000 first printing.
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Claire Cook is the author of the novels Must Love Dogs and Ready to Fall. A teacher of physical fitness and creative writing, she has had previous stints as a copywriter, radio continuity director, garden designer, and dance and aerobics choreographer.
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A midlife back-to-school adventure propels a suburban housewife into an unlikely radio career in Cook's third novel, set on the South Shore of Massachusetts. March Monroe is the spunky protagonist who left college life behind to marry a civil engineer named Jeff and raise a daughter and son while working as an aerobics instructor, party planner and finally a life coach. With Olivia off to college and Jackson not far behind, March finally takes her husband up on his longstanding offer to send her back to school. The degree requires an internship, and when March explores her limited options she finds herself inadvertently working together with Olivia as fellow interns at a local radio station. Exploiting the friction between March and Olivia, handsome programming director David Callahan proposes that the two do a mother-daughter call-in show that quickly takes off and becomes popular. Cook wrings some humor out of family life, March's mild flirtation with Callahan and the back-to-school experience. But the story meanders, detouring into asides about family pets, the generation gap, the stresses of being overscheduled and other typical suburban family disasters. Despite (or because of) the stabs at domestic insight, the cluttered result reads like warmed-over Erma Bombeck.
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After getting her daughter, Olivia, off to the local university, March decides to complete her own degree in something "exotic and multisyllabic." Unable to wangle her way out of the required internship, March selects a position at a local radio station and at the first intern meeting discovers Olivia, another intern. Mother and daughter can now fight again on a daily basis and do so to the delight of the station staff. Their squabbling leads to hosting a radio show. March's life is full of other frustrations. Her thoughtless husband complains about household tasks and forgets to tune in to March and Olivia's show. Her best friend won't let March live down a kitty-litter-in-the-oven incident. A sweet and humorous suburban domestic comedy with likable characters will have readers firmly in March's corner. However, they may be left wondering when March will finally grow the backbone that threatens to emerge in every chapter (and make things interesting) and feel let down by an ending that just appears. Kaite Mediatore
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Hardback. Condition: Fair. There was a time when March Monroe thought that she and her daughter, Olivia, would never really cut the cord. They'd just upgrade to a wireless connection. Now, Olivia is heading off to college, and March hasn't even told her that she's decided to continue her own higher education. So it's hard to say who's more shocked when they run into each other at a local radio station where, it turns out, they're both student interns. Adding to the fireworks are a fourteen-year-old son who probably won't be speaking to March for much longer, a slightly tired marriage, a midlife crush, and a quantum physics class that just might put March over the edge. This new novel from the author of Must Love Dogs is an effervescent story of family life that will strike a chord with women of all ages. Seller Inventory # CIN0670033308A
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Hardback. Condition: Good. There was a time when March Monroe thought that she and her daughter, Olivia, would never really cut the cord. They'd just upgrade to a wireless connection. Now, Olivia is heading off to college, and March hasn't even told her that she's decided to continue her own higher education. So it's hard to say who's more shocked when they run into each other at a local radio station where, it turns out, they're both student interns. Adding to the fireworks are a fourteen-year-old son who probably won't be speaking to March for much longer, a slightly tired marriage, a midlife crush, and a quantum physics class that just might put March over the edge. This new novel from the author of Must Love Dogs is an effervescent story of family life that will strike a chord with women of all ages. Seller Inventory # CIN0670033308G