Marriage Matters: A Novel. Cynthia Ellingsen. Penguin
Group (USA). April 2013. 496 pp. pbk. ISBN #: 9780425258002.
June,
Kristine and Chloe are three generations of a feisty family who know what they want,
at least up to this point. Each of their
lives is about to be overturned, forcing new decisions that are more carefully
arrived at and threatening to totally divide them or unite them more deeply
than ever before! What a journey!
June
is a great gardener, that is until her neighbor Charley puts up a glaring
gazebo that starts a huge fight between the two neighbors. Add to that all
June’s female friends think Charlie is “hot.”
How will their growing animosity develop or at least how could a
neighborly compromise emerge? Where will
it go?
Kristine
and Kevin have been married a long time and now Kristine is wondering if the
best of their life together has passed forever. Kevin travels constantly and is exhausted and
depleted when home. After winning a trip with one of her employees, she realizes
that her marriage is on the rocks. Will
Kristine call it quits and what should she do or not do? This part of the story undergoes several
surprising twists and turns that make the reader flip those pages furiously to
see what happens next.
Chloe
is just too busy to think about romance.
She’s working on an art therapy degree and is just about to blow it when
a run-in with a very rude professor turns into something else. Is this really it? Or not? Is she destined to remain single or is the
love of her life closer than she can see?
Various
stages of romance and lack of same swing back and forth in the always
fascinating pages of this funny, frustrating and tender story. Cynthia Ellingsen knows what lurks within the
hearts and minds of every woman and the men who all too often don’t have a
clue. Marriage Matters: A Novel leaves the reader questioning, reading,
laughing and loving it all – nicely done, Cynthia Ellingsen!
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