Heather Estay It's Never Too Late to Get a Life

It's Never Too Late to Get a Life

Heather Estay

Avon, Sep 2005, $12.95

ISBN: 0060762500

In Sacramento eighteen months ago, Angie Hawkins heard Bob, her husband of twenty-six years making kissy sounds over the phone to the Neighborhood Watch Captain, a zillion pounds overweight Clarisse. When challenged, Bob says: "let's cut to the chase"; explaining he made bad investments, is divorcing Angie to avoid bankruptcy by moving in with wealthy Clarisse. Their children side with their mom as they never liked their dad. Her three "best" friends form the Save Angie Crisis Intervention Team (Jessica, Gwen, and Marie), though each one detests the other two, but all agree Bob stinks and always has.

For Angie's birthday, she has a separate meal with each of her three best friends. They are in accord that Angie needs a night of blinding passion to get out of the coma that Bob left her in, and they accordingly make arrangements.

This is a fun lighthearted contemporary chick lit tale starring a forty something woman recovering from being dumped by her spouse with the help of her adult children and her friends, who cannot share the same planet together. Angie is a wonderful bewildered heroine in and out of her GI Joe costume, struggling to get on her feet starting on her back. Though fluffy (even with its serious undertone of moving on), and avoiding the aging gravity phenomena that physically kills all of us, Angie makes Heather Estay's debut worth reading.

Harriet Klausner