*Photo: simonandschuster.com Everyone She Loved
by
Sheila Curran
Imagine you marry a chick and one day she springs on you...Hey honey...If I die, I want my sister and all my friends to be able to decide if and who you marry. For the sake of the kids of course.
Seems like a preposterous idea right? Um...no. Penelope Cameron does just that. See, she has this persistent irrational fear that she is going to die and leave her husband, two children and prestigious foundation abandoned. So, in her wisdom and brilliance she decides to create a codicil in her will that her husband can only remarry a woman that the four main women in her life find appropriate.
Actually, now that I think about it...it's a DAMN fine idea. Controlling from beyond the grave is probably not what she had in mind. I think she's just a woman who loved her family.
Of course, tragedy strikes and Penelope is caught in the crossfire of a domestic dispute and is shot and killed.
Lucy, one of Penelope's best friends, takes her husband and children under her wing and into her home and surprisingly ends up in a sexual affair with Joey. They find they have intense feelings for each other, but this is quickly thwarted by a pair of cousins hellbent on taking over the foundation and getting rich. They send in a hot nutritionist to help Joey's daughter battle her anorexia, hoping this will cause Joey to want to marry Siobhan (who the friends DO NOT find suitable).
A series of debaucles including a lesbian sex mixup wreak havoc on the tightly knit group and of course, drama ensues.
Will everything get cleared up before Joey falls in love with the wrong (or right) girl? Ah...you will just have to read and see for yourselves.
Sheila Curran has a pretty darn good book with interesting and wickedly woven story.
