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The View from Alameda Island

by Robyn Carr
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A poignant and powerful story about how one woman's best intentions lead to the worst of situations and how love helps her to heal and ultimately triumph.
Lauren Delaney has a life to envy—a successful career, a solid marriage to a prominent surgeon and two beautiful daughters who are off to good colleges. But on her twenty-fourth wedding anniversary Lauren makes a decision that will change everything.
Lauren won't pretend anymore. She defies the controlling husband who has mistreated her throughout their marriage and files for divorce. And as she starts her new life, she meets a kindred spirit—a man who is also struggling with the decision to end his unhappy marriage.
But Lauren's husband wants his "perfect" life back and his actions are shocking. Facing an uncertain future, Lauren discovers an inner strength she didn't know she had as she fights for the love and happiness she deserves.
Don't miss Robyn Carr's next uplifting novel, The Friendship Club, where four women come together at a tumultuous time in their lives, forging an unbreakable bond that will leave them all forever changed—available January 2024!
Look no further for even more great summer beach reads from Robyn Carr:
  • A Family Affair
  • Sunrise On Half Moon Bay
  • The Summer That Made Us
  • Never Too Late

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    • Release date

      April 30, 2019

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        • ISBN: 9781488098727

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        • ISBN: 9781488098727
        • File size: 1050 KB

    • Languages

      • English

    • Reviews

      • Publisher's Weekly

        March 25, 2019
        Bestseller Carr (The Wanderer) falls short with this novel of a woman who pivots from a mid-40s divorce to a surprising new romance. Lauren Delaney is extricating herself from marriage to a surgeon who has spent 24 years inflicting emotional, verbal, and physical abuse on her. She can afford the services of a good lawyer and a lease on a house of her own in the Bay Area enclave of Alameda Island. She also has the support of her sister and close friends. But, straining credulity, she jumps right into a new relationship with Beau Magellan, an affluent landscape designer she meets at random in a church garden. He too is in his mid-40s and mid-divorce. Their coming together and struggles through entirely predictable obstacles thrown down by their irredeemable exes are written like a case study: heavy on omnisciently narrated backstory, and simplified to the broadest brushstrokes of character and motivation. Lacking any real examination of how a middle-aged woman leaving a miserable marriage might think or feel about singlehood, this story neither engages nor enlightens. Agent: Liza Dawson, Liza Dawson Associates.

      • Library Journal

        Starred review from April 1, 2019

        In this latest from Carr, who's hit the top spot on the New York Times best sellers list 11 times, two unhappily married people meet, become friends, and support each other through marital breakup. Then they fall in love. Maybe their family and friends disapprove, but having spent too many years living for others, they are eager to live for themselves. With a 350,000-copy trade paperback and 10,000-copy hardcover first printing.

        Copyright 2018 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.

      • Library Journal

        April 1, 2019

        In this latest from Carr, who's hit the top spot on the New York Times best sellers list 11 times, two unhappily married people meet, become friends, and support each other through marital breakup. Then they fall in love. Maybe their family and friends disapprove, but having spent too many years living for others, they are eager to live for themselves. With a 350,000-copy trade paperback and 10,000-copy hardcover first printing.

        Copyright 2018 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.

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