Buchan masterfully captures the Nicholsons’ personal story with her richly drawn characters—and makes it reflect all of our own frazzled—and salvageable—lives. --Publisher's Weekly
This Thursday, January 20, Elizabeth Buchan's latest book, Separate Beds, will hit the shelves. She has written a number of fabulous books and this one promises to be another gem.
Here’s the synopsis:
Tom and Annie's kids have grown up, the mortgage is do-able, and they're about to get a gorgeous new, state-of-the-art French stove. Life is good- or so it seems. Beneath the veneer of professional success and domestic security, their marriage is crumbling, eaten away by years of resentment, loneliness, and the fall out from the estrangement of their daughter, and they've settled into simply being two strangers living under the same roof.Doesn't it sound so timely and interesting?
Until the economy falls apart.
Suddenly the dull but oddly comfortable predictability of their lives is upended by financial calamity-Tom loses his job, their son returns home, and Tom's mother moves in with them. As their world shrinks, Tom and Annie are forced closer together, and the chaos around them threatens to sweep away their bitterness and frustration, refreshing and possibly restoring the love that had been lying beneath all along.
The kind people at Penguin will be sending a copy to one lucky reader! To enter, simply leave a comment below. I'll choose a winner on the release date--this Thursday--and your book will arrive soon thereafter so you'll be one of the first to have a copy!
I've read good things about this book. Sign me up please.
Theresa N
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Posted by: Theresa N | January 17, 2011 at 05:39 AM
Love reading. This sounds like it could be my husband and me someday (minus the child, but definitely a parent or two moving in with us).
Posted by: Melissa | January 17, 2011 at 02:19 PM
sounds like a great book :-)
Posted by: Leah | January 18, 2011 at 07:50 AM
Sounds like a good read!
Posted by: Hope | January 18, 2011 at 11:36 AM
1. This book sounds amazing and I'd love it to be my next read.
2. I just finished my last book so now I have nothing to read.
3. It was lovely getting to visit with you in SLO, miss you so.
Posted by: Kayla Smith | January 19, 2011 at 12:29 AM
I love books about complicated relationships. Sounds really good!
Posted by: lesli | January 19, 2011 at 10:42 AM
One for the times...hopefully this'll get me reading again! I've been so bad after that horrid summer we spent staring at Bar books...
Posted by: Alice Cheng | January 19, 2011 at 07:52 PM
Love you blog! I've been a fan for over a year now when I stumbled across it while on summer vacation from teaching. I'm looking for something new to read that's different from my guilty pleasure - young adult books. This book looks lovely!
Posted by: Lisa C. | January 19, 2011 at 08:15 PM
I miss you Janet, perhaps I can lunch with you and Lauren one day. The book sounds entertaining and timely with the state of unemployment, stress and a world gone crazy!
Posted by: Ruth Cooper | January 19, 2011 at 08:21 PM
Ohhh it sounds like a good read! Thanks for posting! Even if I don't win this book I will go buy it now....I want to know what happens!! :)
Posted by: Christina | January 19, 2011 at 10:23 PM
Yay! new books.
Posted by: Kerri Anne | January 21, 2011 at 11:58 AM