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by Elizabeth Buchan, Karen Katz
American readers fell in love with Elizabeth Buchan's Revenge of the Middle-Aged Woman. Now, with the delicious sequel, Buchan answers the age-old question: What happens when the mistress becomes the wife?
"Readers may wish she'd written for depth and not breadth,...still, readers who appreciate Buchan's blend of humor and poignancy will find a trove of it." - PW
"Flabby, meandering and emotionally vacuous." - Kirkus
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