Wife Goes On
Book Review by Nicole Hanratty
Wife Goes On by Leslie Lehr
For any woman thinking of leaving her husband, currently going through a divorce, or whom has already travelled that rode, this book is a support group in and of itself.
Diane, a newly single mom with two kids, pulls together a network of women who help each other patch their open wounds as she moves through the stages of grieving her marriage. Together Diane, Lana, Bonnie and Annette form an unlikely alliance bound by their shared relationship woes.
This entertaining--if not sometimes all too real--fictional tale leaves the reader with a strong message about the power of friendship that can propel women through the most difficult of circumstances. It touches on the importance of allowing yourself to make new friends who can relate to your circumstances and illustrates the importance of building support networks.
Through these women's pitfalls and mistakes, one can only see the reality of how difficult it can be to start over. Leslie Lehr does a beautiful job of illustrating through friendship how to overcome insecurity, deal with rejection, work through anger, start over and find humor in life's cruel ironies.
An Excerpt from the back cover:
“It's a club no one wanted to join.
But now that they're here, they'll make the best of it, proving that in every ending is the spark of a glorious beginning."
An excerpt from the book:
"Lana nodded and called the [furniture] store credit office. She tried to make to make nice with them about Diane's mysterious lack of major credit cards, but none of the ID cards Diane gave her listing her roles as PTA president, Walk for Life chairman, Girl Scouts of America trustee, and Little League Moms of L.A. helped raise her [credit] limit. When Lana saw the Wharton business school MBA alumni card, she demanded to speak to the supervisor. Then she covered the phone and handed the cards back to Diane. 'Quite the go-getter, eh?' Diane shrugged as she filled out yet more forms promising her firstborn in exchange for a few hundred dollars' worth of store merchandise."
Available for purchase online here.
