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    Stepmother: A Novel

    By Carrie Adams

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    Bea Frazier hoped she'd rediscover her incredible self after divorcing Jimmy. But being home alone with three daughters brings her demons back with a vengeance. The only solution is to reunite her family. The trouble is, her ex is about to marry someone else.

    Tessa King has finally found true love, but her knight in shining armor comes with three sullen daughters and an ex who doesn't seem nearly "ex" enough. After years of singledom, what does Tessa have to do to finally live happily ever after?

    As the two women negotiate carpools, puberty, and family loyalties, each finds it almost impossible not to fall into the old cliché of the bitter first wife and the wicked stepmother. But if Bea and Tessa are brave enough, they just may find a friend where they once saw an enemy. . . .

    Absorbing and touching, humorous and honest, The Stepmother reminds us that there is always another side to the story.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarperCollins
    Release dateMar 17, 2009
    ISBN9780061842177
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    Stepmother: A Novel
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    Carrie Adams

    Carrie Adams is the author of The Godmother, which is being adapted for film. She lives in London with her husband and three children.

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    • 5/5
      This is a follow up to the Godmother which I thought was an excellent read. It takes up where the Godmother ended with some of the same characters you came to love. I would recommend this book to anyone who wants a light read.
    • 5/5
      Just great! I am reading her two books backwards but I have The Godmother in my hands right this minute and am looking forward to another easy solution to getting myself through my Nordic Track efforts!! Getting a look at the same situation from both sides is a wonderful experience in Carrie Adams' hands.
    • 5/5
      The summary alludes to Tessa and Bea finding out that they need each other. That, oddly enough, they understand where the other is coming from. However, this encounter does not happen until well past the halfway mark. And the encounter is nothing that I expected, and their future interactions are surprising as well. Yet we watch as Tessa and Bea both come to terms with themselves, with each other, and their love for James Kent.Carrie Adams does an excellent job with capturing both women's perspectives to the extent where I sympathized with both of them. She delivers a wonderfully-written story that is totally believable and contains a touch of witty humor.
    • 4/5
      The course of true love never did run smooth…Bea and Jimmy have a great relationship. They have three beautiful daughters ages 8, 9, and 14, and always seem to be there for each other. Also, they separated four years ago and divorced two years ago. Bea and Jimmy are the poster children for amicable divorce—that is until the day that Bea realizes that she’s fallen back in love with her ex-husband. Coincidentally, it’s the same day Jimmy tells her, “I’ve met someone.” That someone is Tessa King. Now, can I just stop right here and say that this is the second book in a row that I’ve read, and haven’t realized it was a sequel until it was far too late to do anything about it. So, FYI, Tessa King is the protagonist of Adams’ debut novel, The Godmother. It might have been nice to have known of her single girl looking-for-love back story, but truthfully I don’t believe it’s necessary to have read the first novel. As I was saying, Tessa is introduced more than 60 pages in, which gave us plenty of time to really get to know Bea and Jimmy and see all that is good about their relationship. The first four chapters are all told from Bea’s point of view, and I was rooting for her. Then, amazingly, the next several chapters were told from Tessa’s point of view and I truly empathized with her! The novel switched POV between the two women every several chapters, and my allegiances continued to switch back and forth throughout the novel—through not strictly based on who was currently narrating. Sometimes I felt the most for Jimmy (or James, as Tessa calls him) and sometimes for the kids. The point is, Carrie Adams did a terrific job of making these characters seem real and empathetic. Love triangles and modern family life are painful. I could really appreciate this difficult situation from all sides. I don’t have to give a detailed synopsis of struggles with an unruly teenager, or family dysfunction, or second thoughts. I don’t want to tell you the ups and downs these people go through. You’ll want to experience that on your own. There’s a lot of drama—which might stretch some readers’ credulity—but it’s no worse than what I’ve heard from people in real life.Adams’ writing is fine. I don’t know that the London setting was integral to the story, but American readers may experience slight confusion over some references or slang. It’s nothing too impenetrable. Overall, The Stepmother is an engaging family drama that occasionally veers towards melodrama. In a story like this not every character can live happily ever after, but as a man once said, “All’s well that ends well.”