This was a reading group choice. A rather mixed bag of a book. All the characters apart from the protagonist are quite sketchily portrayed, to the point where I kept mixing people up or forgetting who they were. The thought that kept recurring to me throughout the book as Judy went through one bad experience after another was, why doesn’t she give her husband (more of) a chance? On the plus side there are many very astute observations about life as a woman in her mid-thirties that jumped out of the book and spoke to me. Also to the book’s credit is that fact that the front cover gives the impression that it is chick lit, but the book is far from light, bubbly reading.

Overall, I probably wouldn’t recommend this; life is too short to spend reading books that are just ok.