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A witty, honest, and hugely entertaining story for anyone who loves books, or has a difficult mother. And, let s face it, that s practically everybody . . .
On paper, Arabella Hicks seems more than qualified to teach her fiction class on the Upper West Side: she s a writer herself; she s passionate about books; she s even named after the heroine in a Georgette Heyer novel.
On the other hand, she s thirty-eight, single, and has been writing the same book for the last seven years. And she has been distracted...