Leaving Sophie Dean by Alexandra Whitaker

Leaving Sophie Dean by Alexandra Whitaker

A quirky and often hilarious story - combining the wit of Sophie Kinsella with the emotional resonance of Marisa de los Santos - about a woman who thinks her comfortable world is crumbling but realizes that change can be good after taking matters into her own hands.

Alexandra Whitaker takes the tried-and-true story of man leaves wife and kids for other woman and gives it a refreshing and surprisingly underutilized twistLEAVING SOPHIE DEAN succeeds brilliantly as a comedy of manners because of Whitaker's pitch-perfect depictions of human foibles and graceful renderings of awkward situations. But the book works on a much deeper level too: as a meditation on marriage, solitude, personal freedom, and parenting that is as thought-provoking as it is entertaining. -- Meg Mitchell Moore, Author Of The Arrivals And So Far Away

Alexandra Whitaker is the daughter of Rodney Whitaker, a.k.a. Trevanian, from whom she learned to write in the course of a happy and fruitful apprenticeship that included collaborating on his last two novels. As a child she lived all over the United States and in Europe, a perpetual 'new girl' and a keen language learner. She has written for children and for film, also short fiction. She lives with her husband and child in Spain and France.

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ISBN 13	9780446583947
ISBN 10	0446583944
Title	Leaving Sophie Dean
Author	Alexandra Whitaker
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Little, Brown & Company
Year published	2012-05-03
Number of pages	352
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