Now Juliet has to wonder if people will notice that despite her perfect career as a successful architect, her perfect marriage to a charming Brit, and her two perfect daughters, she’s spending an increasing amount of time in the closet having panic attacks.Īnd now Barb and John will finally have to face what’s been going on in their marriage all along.įrom the author of Good Luck with That and Life and Other Inconveniences comes a new novel of heartbreaking truths and hilarious honesty about what family really means. Now Sadie has to put her career as a teacher and struggling artist in New York on hold to come back and care for her beloved dad–and face the love of her life, whose heart she broke, and who broke hers. Until the day John had a stroke, and their house of cards came tumbling down. The girls themselves couldn’t be more different, but at least they got along, more or less. Barb and John, married almost fifty years, are testy and bored with each other…who could blame them after all this time? At least they have their daughters– Barb’s favorite, the perfect, brilliant Juliet and John’s darling, the free-spirited Sadie. The Frosts are a typical American family. Sometimes you have to break a family to fix it. (Feb.Audiobook Length: 13 hours and 15 minutes Higgins’s page-turner highlights both the complexity of family relationships and the intense power of love. Kate tries to continue with her work as a photographer and enjoys her friendship with Daniel, the “Hot Firefighter,” and Ainsley enjoys a love/hate relationship with her job as an editor at Hudson Lifestyle, where she always seems to attract the displeasure of her boss, Jonathan. Each draws on the strength of the other to move forward in her life and begin the healing process. After Ainsley moves in with Kate, the two women become closer than they had ever been.

But shortly after Ainsley finds the ring, he publicly breaks up with her via his blog. Kate’s half-sister, Ainsley, talented and ever-cheerful, supported her longtime boyfriend, Eric, through cancer, and believes that he is finally going to propose to her. But when Nathan dies in an accident, she is devastated by his loss. Kate O’Leary is a successful photographer and loves her life with her new husband, Nathan, in suburban Cambry-on-Hudson, N.Y. Higgins examines the ties that bind family as two sisters grieve their losses and provide support to one another.

My One and Only by Kristan Higgins