I just finished reading Shannon Hale's The Actor and the Housewife, which turned out to be quite a surprise. I know Hale's work with teen novels, fantasies - some based on fairy tales but all set in another place and time. The Actor and the Housewife is firmly set in this decade and centers around a Mormon mom of four and her very unlikely friendship with a very handsome, very desirable, very British, very famous actor.
I am not a romance reader. I do NOT go in for clandestine affairs so I put off reading this book for a whole year. This book - it made me laugh out loud very very quickly and it made me cry, as well. The ending was bittersweet because I like these characters a lot. And I resented losing each and every one of them, especially since one of them was lost irrevocably. Enough. Read the book. I think it would make a great movie.
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