The Secret Lives of Fortunate Wives

By Sarah Strohmeyer

Book Overview

From the creator of the inimitable, zany sleuth Bubbles Yablonsky comes a witty, wild, and shocking tale about love suburban style.News bulletin: Gone is HBO?s Sex and the City. Sex has moved to the suburbs. Here is where you?ll find ABC?s #1 TV show Desperate Housewives. Here too is The Secret Lives of Fortunate Wives, a hilarious but poignant and spot-on novel about love and betrayal inside the world of the gated community.Pampered Hunting Hills, Ohio, socialite Marti Denton never realized she was madly in love with John Harding until he impulsively married Claire Stark, a beautiful but socially awkward newspaper reporter to whom a coming-out? party is a controversy, not a tradition. It?s not until the Hunting Hills wives are plunged into a series of explosive scandals that the two women reach a new understanding of each other and what it means to be a fortunate wife in the twenty-first century. In The Secret Lives of Fortunate Wives, Sarah Strohmeyer has written a Stepford Wivesfor our time?funny, wise, and eye-opening. Praise for Strohmeyer?s Bubblesseries: Meet Bubbles Yablonsky, beautician-reporter-sleuth and blazing star of Strohmeyer?s entertaining, establishment-bashing debut.? ?Publishers Weekly [Bubbles] is a born reporter, an intuitive student of human behavior who has refined her natural skills in the crucible of gossip.? ?The Boston Globe

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0525949097
• ISBN13: 9780525949091
• Release Date: September 2005
• Publisher: Dutton Adult
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.3" x 1.2" x 6.3"
• Age Range: 14 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 8 and higher

Customer Reviews

If you like Desperate Housewives...

I can see why people compare this book to the TV series: both feature exclusive communities populated by fashion-obsessed and sex-full women. But being a writer myself, I know this is no case of copycatting. It takes the typical book 12-18 months to achieve publication...after it's been written, delivered, and accepted. Doing the math, this would indicate that, just as I've always thought, anytime a writer thinks she has an original idea, there's someone else somewhere in the world coming up with the same thought. And yet, here is the thing: I gave up on DH halfway throuugh the current season but I never gave up on Ms. Strohmeyer's book, not for a second. Sure, this is pure escapist fun, but with everything that's wrong with the world, isn't that what most of us need from time to time? Two thumbs, loaded with bling-bling, way up.

TRUE

I am from Moreland Hills Ohio which is where the story is based on. The town over is Hunting Valley, the other half of the made up Hunting Hills. I am a college student and happened to be drawn to the book by the cover, only then did I realize it is about my hometown. all i can say is this book is soo true as to what happens back home. I even went to the school that Holly was based on and I wore a green skirt as I played field hockey. this book is amazing and i dont even read that often but I could not even put it down.

Makes desperate housewives look tame

Couldn't put this book down. A fun read with great twists and turns. Makes those tv housewives look tame. Strohmeyer has an easy way with words and a sense of humor that really shows. And the characters come across as real. Strohmeyer writes as if the story happened this past weekend.