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The Secret Ingredient for a Happy Marriage

by Shirley Jump
Forever: Grand Central. May 2018. 367p. ISBN 9781455572021. pap. $14.99; ebk. ISBN 9781455572038. F
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Life could not look worse to Nora O'Bannon Daniels. It's her 30th birthday, her eight-year-old daughter was suspended for fighting, and her home is going on the auction block. Though her husband, Ben, hasn't gambled since rehab a year ago, the damage is done—to their finances and their marriage. Nora is so accustomed to being the person others rely on that opening up to her widowed mother and three sisters, most of whom work with her at the family bakery, seems impossible. Does she want a divorce? How would her kids react to that in addition to having to move? When her youngest sister invites Nora to spend a few days at a friend's beach house, Nora thinks the kids would enjoy it, and maybe she'll get some much-needed perspective. Or perhaps she'll continue to bury her head in the sand, literally.
VERDICT Jump revisits the O'Bannons (The Perfect Recipe for Love and Friendship), letting wife and mom Nora find her place in her own life as well as within her bustling Irish Catholic family. Readers might want to shove Nora off the self-control couch a time or two, but eventually she grabs on to what's important. For fans of Jane Porter and Kristan Higgins.
Reviewed by Bette-Lee Fox, Library Journal , Apr 13, 2018
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