"Witty and hilarious chick-lit - not to be missed!"

Ellie Winters, the ultimate over-achiever and dependable good girl with boring boyfriends and an equally boring job, despairs she'll ever find the one true love of her life, even though Washington, DC, is full of eligible men. Her biological clock is booming like Big Ben with her 30th birthday just around the corner, and if that's not bad enough, she has to go home for the holidays - to the family from hell.

Ted Langston, handsome TV anchor with a respectable reputation to maintain, is interested only in women close to his 50-plus age. Divorced and still shaking off his ex- wife, his cool, aloof manner makes him seem unreachable. Until one night, while walking his dog, he becomes entangled with another canine owner and his breath is snatched away like a teen on prom night.

Ms. Gaskell's hilariously funny book is supported by a cast of sophisticated city-types, all with their own agendas and to-die-for wardrobes. Written in first-person, with witty, adult dialog and themes, this is a book you don't want to miss reading.

Reviewed by Shayne Sawyer
Courtesy Old Book Barn Gazette
Posted September 23, 2003

Summary

"The one thing you should know about me is this: I'm the consummate Good Girl. . ." Ellie Winters is dependable and loyal and has a near-phobic aversion to conflict. But as her thirtieth birthday looms ever closer, she starts to feel like she's lost the instruction manual to her life. She has just broken up with her boring boyfriend, despises her job, and is the last of her high school friends to remain single. Worse, her dysfunctional family is driving her nuts, and she's somehow become enslaved to her demanding pet pug Sally, who she suspects is the reincarnation of Pol Pot. One night, after a botched attempt to color her hair at home, Ellie rushes to the drugstore for emergency bleach, Sally in tow. Sally is accosted by a smitten canine admirer . . . but it's the dog's owner who captures Ellie's attention. Television news anchor Ted Langston is witty, intriguing, and sexy. The only catch? He's twice her age-- and the only man on the planet who isn't interested in dating a younger woman. And no one, from Ellie's best friends to Ted's ex-wife, wants to see them get together.