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The Secret Lives of Fortunate Wives
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Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.6
EAN: 9780525949091
ISBN: 0525949097
Label: Dutton Adult
Manufacturer: Dutton Adult
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 368
Publication Date: September 22, 2005
Publisher: Dutton Adult
Studio: Dutton Adult
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Editorial Review:
From the creator of the inimitable, zany sleuth Bubbles Yablonsky comes a witty, wild, and shocking tale about love suburban style. News bulletin: Gone is HBOs Sex and the City. Sex has moved to the suburbs. Here is where youll find ABCs #1 TV show Desperate Housewives. Here too is The Secret Lives of Fortunate Wives, a hilarious but poignant and spot-on novel about love and betrayal inside the world of the gated community.
Pampered Hunting Hills, Ohio, socialite Marti Denton never realized she was madly in love with John Harding until he impulsively married Claire Stark, a beautiful but socially awkward newspaper reporter to whom a coming-out party is a controversy, not a tradition. Its not until the Hunting Hills wives are plunged into a series of explosive scandals that the two women reach a new understanding of each other and what it means to be a fortunate wife in the twenty-first century. In The Secret Lives of Fortunate Wives, Sarah Strohmeyer has written a Stepford Wives for our timefunny, wise, and eye-opening. Praise for Strohmeyers Bubbles series:
Meet Bubbles Yablonsky, beautician-reporter-sleuth and blazing star of Strohmeyers entertaining, establishment-bashing debut.
Publishers Weekly [Bubbles] is a born reporter, an intuitive student of human behavior who has refined her natural skills in the crucible of gossip.
The Boston Globe
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - Thoroughly Unimpressed...
This book was so disappointing after the other two books I have read by Strohmeyer. I have her newest book, but after this disaster, I am reluctant to pick it up. The characters were not developed and so shallow. Even Claire, the main character, was poorly drawn. I felt no connection to her, and her situation was not compelling. Her husband was just as shallow, and the other characters were downright ludicrous. I understand the basic premise, but with such stereotypical characters, I was not into ... Read More
Rating:  - A easty but shallow read
The Secret Lives of Fortunate Wives combines the classic "fish out of water" element with a touch of the Stepford Wives. John Harding, the most eligable bachelor in Hunting Hills comes home with a surprise. A new wife. Not only is she a surprise, she is not from Hunting Hills and not part of the rarified world inhabited by Lisa, Marti, Karen and John's ex-wife, Boots. Claire also is a working journalist and has a life outside of clothes, decorating, life coaches and the occasional affair (usually ... Read More
Rating:  - I wonder if the author knows any WASPS
Nanny Diaries is a more accurate and entertaining peak into the lives of superficial and rich housewives. After reading this book, I wondered if the author knows any WASPS in real life.
Rating: - The Secret Lives of Fortunate Wives
This book was not one of Sarah Strohmeyer's best.
I was really turned off to the book when two of her characters used the phrase "Christ on a stick"...
It is offensive to me, and very unessessary to the plot of the book.
A much better book by Sarah Strohmeyer was: "The Cinderella Pact"
Rating:  - A Smashingly funny novel full of pure chick lit; all skinny and tanned and shopahilcs.
This is my first Sarah Strohmeyer book, I haven't read her Bubble Series and this is simply because I am not fond of Series they sort of get monotemathic for me but this book was a pleasant surprise.
This book reminds me of the Stepford Wives and its just so funny yet sad; these women live lives of vanity and lies, they fast for days at a time and live on diets, they shop till they drop without letting their hubbies worry them one bit. They have a set of "rules" they live by and its funny to find ... Read More
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