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Play It Again, Sam
When her husband comes home from work one day to announce he's moving out, Samantha Rutgers thinks it's a joke. She hopes it's a joke. It's not. He packs his suitcase and moves out. For twenty-five years, Sam was a corporate wife, a stay-at-home mom. Now she's divorced, adrift, and alienated from her daughter who blames her for the divorce. Ill equipped to be a single woman in a whole new dating culture, she would have foundered without help from an old friend who challenges her to finish up the art degree she put on hold when she married. Her classes open the door to a job at an advertising agency, where Sam makes several new friends and one enemy. There she meets Frank Reynolds, who invites her to take that first step into new love. Gradually, as she slowly builds a new life for herself, Sam learns how to stand strong in the face of adversity, personal and professional.
306 pages, Kindle Edition
First published January 1, 2000
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Maryann Miller
48 books552 followersMaryann Miller writes the critically acclaimed Seasons Mystery Series that debuted with Open Season, and continued with Stalking Season, Desperate Season, and the recently released Brutal Season.
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Miller has received the Page Edwards Short Story Award. Placed first in the screenwriting competition at the Houston Writer's Conference. Was a semi-finalist at Sundance and in the Chesterfield Screenwriting Competition.
For fifteen years she was the theatre director at the Winnsboro Center for the Arts, where she directed adult and youth productions and coordinated the annual Kidzz On Stage Summer Drama Camp.
Miller also likes to be onstage and has appeared in numerous productions. Her most recent role was Big Mama in "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof.
When not working or playing on stage, Miller enjoys reading and quilting and coloring. She lives in Texas with one dog, and four cats. The cats rule.
See all of her titles at her Amazon Author Page https://www.amazon.com/Maryann-Miller...
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Miller has received the Page Edwards Short Story Award. Placed first in the screenwriting competition at the Houston Writer's Conference. Was a semi-finalist at Sundance and in the Chesterfield Screenwriting Competition.
For fifteen years she was the theatre director at the Winnsboro Center for the Arts, where she directed adult and youth productions and coordinated the annual Kidzz On Stage Summer Drama Camp.
Miller also likes to be onstage and has appeared in numerous productions. Her most recent role was Big Mama in "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof.
When not working or playing on stage, Miller enjoys reading and quilting and coloring. She lives in Texas with one dog, and four cats. The cats rule.
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December 2, 2013
This novel is a good example of women's fiction, diving right into the protagonist's problem with the opening lines when she says to her husband of more that 25 years:
"John, you can't be serious."
"I'm sorry."
"But a divorce! How can you...?"
He can and does, refuses to discuss his reasons other than to say he is unhappy, and away the story goes, through the emotional and legal problems, money problems, a total life change that involves their two grown children, the sale of the house, the search for stability, and misunderstandings with friends, and all the other awful things that happen in this sort of situation. Some you may guess at, others you won't. The wife who thought her marriage was a good one has to find a new self image, and it isn't easy. Well, it couldn't be, could it? This novel kept me turning the pages.
"John, you can't be serious."
"I'm sorry."
"But a divorce! How can you...?"
He can and does, refuses to discuss his reasons other than to say he is unhappy, and away the story goes, through the emotional and legal problems, money problems, a total life change that involves their two grown children, the sale of the house, the search for stability, and misunderstandings with friends, and all the other awful things that happen in this sort of situation. Some you may guess at, others you won't. The wife who thought her marriage was a good one has to find a new self image, and it isn't easy. Well, it couldn't be, could it? This novel kept me turning the pages.
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