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The May/December Twist
At fifty, finding romance is hard. It’s trickier if your three best friends (Liz, Kendra and Jo; together known as The Four) sign you up for a dating site and monitor your every move. And, the challenge becomes more complicated when Jo starts competing with Allie for contenders.
Allie eventually settles for David, an age-appropriate schoolteacher. He’s pleasant, but makes her feel sleepy, not particularly passionate.
A chance encounter leads Allie to Jameson, a self-made entrepreneur. He’s brilliant, interesting and wildly attractive. He decides to volunteer at her non-profit, “Twenty”; he believes in Allie’s vision of volunteering twenty minutes or twenty dollars to the community is brilliant. They share the same sense of values and have definite chemistry.
The problem? He’s twenty-five years younger. The Four consider her crush on Jameson inappropriate. Jo can’t believe Allie isn’t choosing David. (Or does she want him for herself?)
If Allie pursues her feelings will she lose The Four’s friendship? Another issue? The possible wrath of her twin twenty-one-year-old sons. And, why would Jameson ever consider her as relationship material anyway?
Based on real life stories of unlikely but wildly passionate long-term relationships between older women and younger men, The May/December Twist is a tale of alliances, conflicting values and what’s important in the complicated search for love.
Originally published as "The Math Problem"
Allie eventually settles for David, an age-appropriate schoolteacher. He’s pleasant, but makes her feel sleepy, not particularly passionate.
A chance encounter leads Allie to Jameson, a self-made entrepreneur. He’s brilliant, interesting and wildly attractive. He decides to volunteer at her non-profit, “Twenty”; he believes in Allie’s vision of volunteering twenty minutes or twenty dollars to the community is brilliant. They share the same sense of values and have definite chemistry.
The problem? He’s twenty-five years younger. The Four consider her crush on Jameson inappropriate. Jo can’t believe Allie isn’t choosing David. (Or does she want him for herself?)
If Allie pursues her feelings will she lose The Four’s friendship? Another issue? The possible wrath of her twin twenty-one-year-old sons. And, why would Jameson ever consider her as relationship material anyway?
Based on real life stories of unlikely but wildly passionate long-term relationships between older women and younger men, The May/December Twist is a tale of alliances, conflicting values and what’s important in the complicated search for love.
Originally published as "The Math Problem"
290 pages, Kindle Edition
First published August 15, 2013
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About the author
Romney Humphrey
3 booksRomney Humphrey is a writer and playwright residing in the Pacific Northwest and California. Her plays have been performed in New York, Seattle and California. She has written and produced extensive television, video, print and media projects for clients throughout the country.
A former educator, her original children’s television pilot, “Outside In” won a National Parent’s Choice Award. She was a writer for the PBS award winning series “The Art of Aging”. After a first career as an educator, she then worked as a writer/producer at a regional television station and as an independent consultant. That was a rich and rewarding process, not just because she doesn’t suffer from PTSD when viewing promotional videos, unlike when she walks past any elementary school at recess and recalls the nightmare of playground duty.
She wrote her first book, “The May December Twist” after hearing several stories about older women and much younger men having highly successful and long-lasting relationships. It’s a chick-lit, and Kirkus Review crowed, “Humphrey’s new chick-lit is a romping good time.”
Her second book, “How I Learned I’m Old” came about because she is now old and had to process the fact. The book is a mostly hilarious and often poignant exploration of the complicated and surprising pre-twilight phase of life.
She is currently working on a children’s series and tv comedic pilot.
A former educator, her original children’s television pilot, “Outside In” won a National Parent’s Choice Award. She was a writer for the PBS award winning series “The Art of Aging”. After a first career as an educator, she then worked as a writer/producer at a regional television station and as an independent consultant. That was a rich and rewarding process, not just because she doesn’t suffer from PTSD when viewing promotional videos, unlike when she walks past any elementary school at recess and recalls the nightmare of playground duty.
She wrote her first book, “The May December Twist” after hearing several stories about older women and much younger men having highly successful and long-lasting relationships. It’s a chick-lit, and Kirkus Review crowed, “Humphrey’s new chick-lit is a romping good time.”
Her second book, “How I Learned I’m Old” came about because she is now old and had to process the fact. The book is a mostly hilarious and often poignant exploration of the complicated and surprising pre-twilight phase of life.
She is currently working on a children’s series and tv comedic pilot.
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October 24, 2015
This book had so much potential but it fell a bit flat for me. I think the author could have done so much with the interactions between Jameson and Allie's sons and friends instead of spending the entire book working through Allie's internal drama and Jo's annoying dramatics. I feel like I'm hanging from a cliff, I'd like to know how it all turns out. Is there a sequel?
October 3, 2014
I won this book from Chick Lit Central. =] I loved this book so much! After reading the first page alone I knew it would end up being one of my favorites. I hope that this author decides to write more books soon because I plan to read all of them. =]
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