Título: The Best Laid Plans
Autor: Lynn Schnurnberger
Sinopse: From Lynn Schnurnberger, bestselling co-author of Mine Are Spectacular! and The Botox Diaries, comes a novel of big secrets, family ties, and a reminder that sometimes The Best Laid Plans can lead to delightful surprises. Tru Newman is one of the Upper East Side M&Msthe wealthy stay-at-home moms who are into personal Maintenance and Mothering. Having been raised by a beauty queen mother who constantly picked on her, Tru loves looking after her investment banker husband, Peter, and their twin teen daughters. But her perfect world spins off its axis the night Tru throws a charity benefit and discovers that Peters been out of work for three months. Even worse, the familys been living on a house of cardsspecifically, Visa and Amexthats about to collapse. Suze Orman tells Tru to Get a job! But doing what? When Trus best friend, Sienna Post, loses her position as an anchor on the local nightly news, the two hatch a profitable if illegal plan: Theyll open an escort service with working girls all over the age of forty. Modeling themselves on Carla Bruni (after she married the president of France, not before, when she was dating Mick Jagger), their smart, sexy, seasoned escorts become a big hit with a roster of thirty-year-old clients. If only Trus legit life could fall so easily into place: Her husbands new job has him working side by side with a flirtatious neighbor, her fourteen-year-old twins are competing over a two-timing, Clearasil-using Casanova, and after suffering a heart attack in her bodybuilding class, Trus hypercritical mother moves in with her. Not to mention that the gossip columns get wind that Tru and Siennas temp agency isnt on the up-and-upand the DA is on their case. But for the savvy and spirited Tru, these new obstacles bring unexpected benefitsfrom Geisha facials, to massage toys that are better than chocolate, to the realization that at midlife, shes more comfortable than ever before in her own skin and more grateful for all that she has. By turns touching and laugh-out-loud funny, this is a must-read for every woman who knows its never too late to make a fresh start.
Contexto da obra
Quando a classificação é mais ampla, o contexto do livro costuma depender ainda mais de autoria, tema e edição. “The Best Laid Plans”, de Lynn Schnurnberger, publicado pela editora Ballantine Books, em 2011 e com 289 páginas, integra a categoria Livros Variados. Por isso, autoria, edição e tema acabam tendo ainda mais peso na forma de apresentar o livro.
Editora: Ballantine Books
Páginas: 289
Ano: 2011
Edição:
Linguagem: English
ISBN: 0345524578
ISBN13: 9780345524577
Sobre a editora
A leitura dos livros da editora Ballantine Books revela uma preferência por narrativas que exploram intensamente relações humanas complexas, muitas vezes em contextos marcados por mistério, conflito ou transformação pessoal. O catálogo apresenta histórias que transitam entre o suspense policial, dramas familiares e romances com toques de realismo mágico ou sobrenatural, criando um ritmo que alterna entre tensão e momentos de introspecção. As sinopses sugerem também um interesse por personagens em situações-limite, como investigações criminais em ambientes isolados, jornadas de autoconhecimento e confrontos com o passado, sempre com uma linguagem acessível e envolvente.
