![]() ![]() ![]() What neither of them know is that the fiancée has her own secrets too. Jumping between the past and the present, Joan’s obsession takes on a personality of its own, threatening to sabotage the wedding. In ‘Forty-Two,’ Joan is forty-two and she’s waiting around for Jack, thirty-two, to leave his fiancée in favour of continuing their affair before the big day. The collection chronicles the lives of American women, young and old, successful and wanting: motherless, loveless and directionless.įrom two best friends holidaying in Puerto Rico, famous tech entrepreneurs making life-changing decisions, middle aged women pining after younger heartthrobs, to Italian immigrants struggling with painful memories from their past – these nine stories are real and raw, with women who are in constant competition not just with each other, but time itself. This time it’s in the form of a collection of short stories, two of which earned Taddeo the Pushcart Prize in 20. Ghost Lover (2022) by bestselling and award-winning author of Three Women (2019) and Animal (2021), Lisa Taddeo brings us another ferocious dose of female desire. ![]()
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