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Claire Marsh’s husband has just dumped her for an older woman, leaving Claire, and her six-year-old daughter, Zoë, without any source of income—or stability. Claire struggles to get back on her feet, find a job, and provide a good home for Zoë, but things seem to be getting worse instead of better . . . .
Mia is only a few years older than her sister, Claire, but she’s never been in a relationship that’s lasted longer than a week or two. She decides to start evaluating her relationships with men to see where she’s going wrong. After all, her big desire in life is to have someone who truly loves her—and maybe a child. Can she figure out her mistakes and move past them?
Zoë struggles to understand why her daddy has left her from some weird health food nut, resents her mom for always being mean to her, and tries to mimic her beloved Aunt Mimi, as best as she can. Things get worse when she is assigned to the mean teacher at school—the one who has always hated the Marsh girls and made life miserable for them. Now, with her home life falling apart, how can she possibly handle a teacher who hates her?
This is the first time I’ve read a book where each scene is written in three different points of view. At first I found it confusing having to constantly start a scene over and over—but eventually I began to like knowing what each thought about what was happening.
There is some foul language in PLAY DATES but all-in-all, it is a cute read that held my attention to the end. I wanted to see Claire, Mia, and Zoë succeed in their life changes.
Reviewed by Laura V. Hilton
for The Road to Romance
March 14, 2005
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