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Thursday, August 26, 2010

OUT OF THE BLUE (Isabel Wolff)

Faith and Peter Smith have been comfortably married for 15 years, though lately things have been a little less than blissful due to Peter's stressful job situation.  Faith's glamorous friend Lily suggests that Peter is showing classic signs of infidelity when he forgets their anniversary and sends her flowers to apologize.  As circumstantial evidence piles up, Lily, a glossy magazine editor with and annoying dog named Jennifer Aniston, offers to pay for a private detective to tail Peter as part of an article on infidelity.  When Peter finally confesses to a fling with his head hunter, Andie, Faith is devastated, throws him out, and reluctantly embarks on a new life as a soon-to-be divorced woman.

Wolff's style is light and appealing.  Her characters can, intentionally, I think, border on stereotypical, but the sympathetic ones are likeable and the reader will find herself rooting for a happy ending.

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