Category: General Fiction, Romance
Language: EnglishKeywords: A Second Chance
Written by Sally Kilpatrick
Read by Coleen Marlo
Format: M4B
Bitrate: Variable
Unabridged
From a USA Today bestselling author comes a poignant, funny, and heartfelt novel about a wife and mother grabbing hold of a second chance she never saw coming.
Vivian Quackenbush enjoys a typical life. She has winesday evenings with her two best friends. Her son is in college. She and her husband, Mitch, are planning the next move for their empty-nester future. But to Vivianâs blindsided surpriseâ¦not together.
After nearly twenty-five years of marriage, Mitch wants a divorce. He confesses that he doesnât love her anymore. He never even liked her chicken salad! Brutal. What is Vivian to do but channel her anger, frustration, and pain into a video she posts online. Ill advised? Perhaps. Cathartic? Absolutely. Overnight, Vivian goes viral. Millions of views and countingâto Mitchâs fury, her sonâs embarrassment, her motherâs support, and the mediaâs delight. For Vivian, itâs a moment of truth: hide or lean into it. Vivian 2.0 chooses to leanâmaybe even toward the younger single father next door.
Now Vivian is wondering where she goes from here. Sheâs discovering that somewhere in her trending if upended life, sheâll have to figure out who she really wants to be.
From a USA Today bestselling author comes a poignant, funny, and heartfelt novel about a wife and mother grabbing hold of a second chance she never saw coming.
Vivian Quackenbush enjoys a typical life. She has winesday evenings with her two best friends. Her son is in college. She and her husband, Mitch, are planning the next move for their empty-nester future. But to Vivianâs blindsided surpriseâ¦not together.
After nearly twenty-five years of marriage, Mitch wants a divorce. He confesses that he doesnât love her anymore. He never even liked her chicken salad! Brutal. What is Vivian to do but channel her anger, frustration, and pain into a video she posts online. Ill advised? Perhaps. Cathartic? Absolutely. Overnight, Vivian goes viral. Millions of views and countingâto Mitchâs fury, her sonâs embarrassment, her motherâs support, and the mediaâs delight. For Vivian, itâs a moment of truth: hide or lean into it. Vivian 2.0 chooses to leanâmaybe even toward the younger single father next door.
Now Vivian is wondering where she goes from here. Sheâs discovering that somewhere in her trending if upended life, sheâll have to figure out who she really wants to be.