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    Goodbye To All That

    By Judith Arnold

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    Redefining who we are in our family takes courage and an indestructible sense of humor.

    Being the middle child is never easy, but thirty-six-year-old Jill Bendel is about to find out just how hard that job is when her mother throws away her sensible pumps, packs up her collection of classical music and runs away from home.

    Longtime wife and mother Ruth Bendel loves her family but hates her life. Husband Richard doesn't even know how the steam iron works, let alone how a woman works. When Ruth's last nerve snaps, she finally does what she's wanted to do so many times before-she gets an apartment, a job, a new life and new friends.

    How will her pampered family survive?

    Who will take care of her son Doug's daughters when he flies off for a romantic week with his wife? How can youngest daughter Melissa contemplate getting pregnant now that she's the child of a broken home? How is Jill going to juggle the demands of her own marriage, her kids, her siblings and her career while simultaneously trying to get her parents to reconcile? Why is it that when things fall apart, everyone expects Jill to put them back together?

    Maybe she ought to run away from home, too.

    Judith Arnold is a bestselling and award winning author with more than ten million copies of her novels in print. Before turning to fiction writing, she was a working playwright with plays staged in California, Connecticut, Washington, D.C. and off-Broadway in New York City, as well as in Calgary, Canada. A native New Yorker, Judith lives in a small town near Boston.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBelleBooks
    Release dateMar 29, 2012
    ISBN9781611941166
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    Judith Arnold

    Writing under the pen name Judith Arnold, Barbara Keiler is the author of eighty-six published novels. She has been a multiple finalist for RWA's Rita Award, and she's won several Reviewer's Choice Awards from RT Book Reviews, including awards for Best Harlequin American, Best Superromance, Best Series Romance, and, most recently, Best Contemporary Romance Novel. Her novel Love In Bloom's was honored as one of the best books of the year by Publishers Weekly. Her Superromance Barefoot In The Grass has appeared on the recommended reading lists of cancer support groups and hospitals.

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    • 4/5
      It was a great & realistic book! It's about a mother who decides to assert her independence and a daughter who is inspired to do so herself.
    • 3/5
      I found this to be an intriguing book. Readers' opinions will reflect where they are in life and how they got there. Husband and wife of 40+ years announce to the family that they are separating. Everyone wants an explanation; no one understands. As life goes on, we are shown how earth-shattering this news is to some of the family. First (and second) reactions tend to be of the "oh, no! Who's going to take care of me now?" sort. We see the characters look around and begin to question themselves, their relationships with each other or spounses; they also take a fresh look at the role each has traditionally played in the family. Over time the roles slowly change, bonds increase among the brother and sisters and spouses. The characterizations are strong, the language is used well. The descriptions allow the settings to come alive. The book is well done! Jill tells her mother "You took a risk. You took a chance. You took a leap of faith....faith in things working out. Or faith in yourself, knowing that if they don't work out, you'll still be okay." That answers a question we all ask ourselves at one time or another: "can I trust in me?"