Tuesday, September 2, 2008

Swapping Lives

What a cute book!

This book is about a women, Vicky, from the UK who works at a magazine and isn't happy about her current love life. She breaks down to her editor and accidentally mentions out-load that she wants to swap lives with a married women. Vicky thought that being married with children would solve all of her issues. She just felt desperate.


Vicky is a single women in her mid-thirty's who continues falls for the wrong man. She lives with her cat in a "flat". She loves her job, but things something is missing from her life.



Her editor loved the idea so much, it was now Vicky's job to find a married women with children to swap with her single life. Several women apply all over the UK and one from America. The potential swapee's were narrowed down and a stay-at-home mom from CT was picked, Amber.


Amber is a mother of two children, married, lives in a McMansion, has housekeepers, top of the line clothing and everything at her disposal. She also feels she has to keep up with the "friendly" neighborhood league of women who raise money for charities, but also compete among themselves for popularity. She also feels something is missing from her live.


This book walks us through a few weeks of swapped lives between Amber and Vicky. With each women in the other one's shoes, it helps them realize that each of their lives is a perfect fit for them. They come to realize how much they really do have, but not without some life altering discoveries in the process.

3 comments:

Kellan said...

Sounds very interesting -thanks for the review!

Take care - Kellan

The Sweet Family said...

I almost got this book 2 weeks ago at the Library to read.

Now I will but it will have to wait, I am so waiting for the new Nicolas Sparks book out in late Sept.

Hugs!

Anonymous said...

Great tale and the moral at the center of it always rings true...the grass is not always greener on the other side! It would be so cool if we could actually do this...I wonder who we would chose to swap with???

:) Amy