Here’s the set-up for Sharon Pott’s Goodbye Neverland, just $2.99 on Kindle or currently FREE for Amazon Prime Members Via the Kindle Lending Library:
If you’ve ever been a mom, or a daughter, or a wife…sometimes you just feel like flapping your wings and saying goodbye to Neverland. (Don’t ya?)
Wendy Wright, a stay-at-home mom, has a fairy-tale existence with three terrific teenage kids, a handsome husband, and a comfortable upscale lifestyle. She’s even won second place in the ‘Warmest Hearth in Our Hometown’ competition and makes a killer chili.
But Wendy worries about finding fulfillment “after the kids have gone off to college” and decides it’s time to step off the ‘Mommy Track’ and venture out of Neverland. Despite her family’s misgivings, she takes a temp job that’s well beneath her abilities as a one-time successful MBA.
But before long, hyper-competent Wendy is practically running things at the poorly managed company. Unfortunately, things aren’t so great at home. The kids are getting into trouble, Wendy’s widowed father has come to live with them, and her husband has lost his job and dignity in his own mid-life crisis.
Wendy feels the crush of the sandwich generation as she tries to juggle work, family and a marriage that’s fast unraveling. But Wendy’s not about to give up on her family, the company…or herself.
Goodbye Neverland will make you laugh and cry. But mostly you’ll be standing up and cheering for the moms of the world.
From the reviewers:
This … is not just another light read, but a story with depth and meaning. I was surprised to find myself not just laughing out loud, but occasionally in tears, relating very personally to Wendy’s very realistically portrayed family dilemmas. A terrific, deeply satisfying book. – Susan G. “Wellread”
As a guy who has picked it up and started all over … many times … albeit not as a mother with children, I actually felt the strain of change that led to mental pain during the various episodes unfolding within this nicely played out story. The main protgonist, Wendy, was soft yet hard; vulnerable yet efficient; lovable yet loveless throughout and I felt like she was another one of us just trying so hard to play with the big guys. It is sort of a chick book but in my own male chauvinist way I enjoyed it ’til the end. – Richard Albert
Life at its funniest and most frustrating. Sharon Potts spins this very funny, satirically serious tale that gives great insight into what we think is important, what we think is perfect and what is simply delusional. – Delia Foley
I’ve never been good with boundaries. When I’m told something can’t or shouldn’t be done, I’m usually incited to do it. For the last few years, my writing impulses have taken me into a world of dark places and suspense. I have put my heart into Jeremy Stroeb and Robbie Ivy and experience the same fears and terror they do as they search for family and truth.
I write novels of suspense and I hope I’ve done it well. IN THEIR BLOOD received a starred review from Publishers Weekly and the 2010 Benjamin Franklin Award for best mystery/suspense novel, and SOMEONE’S WATCHING also received kudos from the likes of Booklist and Publishers Weekly.
So why, when I’m on my way to establishing a successful brand as Sharon Potts–suspense novelist, would I decide to go against conventional wisdom and write and publish humorous contemporary fiction? Well, because I like Mozart and Dan Fogelberg and Degas and Picasso. I’m not a one-track tape. Maybe you aren’t, either.
I hope you’ll have a look at my latest work–SOUTH BEACH CINDERELLA and GOODBYE NEVERLAND. Yes, they’re funny–at least I intended them to be. But they also deal with the themes that are important to me and are in everything I write–about family, and what really matters in life. Visit me at www.sharonpotts.com
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