Happiness Sold Separately, Lolly Winston
Happiness Sold Separately, Lolly Winston
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Happiness Sold Separately

Author: Lolly Winston

Narrator: Cassandra Campbell

Unabridged: 10 hr 53 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 08/08/2006

Synopsis

Elinor Mackey has always done the right things in the right order–college, law school, career, marriage–but now everything’s going wrong. After two painful years of trying, Elinor has learned that she can’t have children. All the doctors can tell her is that it’s probably because of her age. As she turns forty, she withdraws into an interior world of heartbreak.

Elinor’s loving husband, Ted, a successful podiatrist, has always done the right thing, too. Then he meets the wrong woman at the wrong time, and does the wrong thing. Ted’s lover, Gina–a beautiful and kindhearted nutritionist–always eats the right thing, but is unlucky in love and always falls for the wrong men. Soon Ted has to fight to make everything right again.

Can Elinor and Ted’s marriage be saved? The answer is alarmingly fresh and unexpected as New York Times bestselling author Lolly Winston introduces us to characters as memorable as those of Anne Tyler and Nick Hornby, but who are indelibly all her own.

About Lolly Winston

Born and raised in Hartford, Connecticut, Lolly Winston holds an MFA in creative writing from Sarah Lawrence College, where she wrote a collection of short stories as her thesis. She is the author of New York Times bestselling novels Good Grief and Happiness Sold Separately, the latter of which is being developed as a film. Her short stories have appeared in The Sun, The Southeast Review, The Third Berkshire Anthology, Girls’ Night Out, and others. She’s contributed essays to the anthologies Kiss Tomorrow Hello and Bad Girls.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Abigail on August 06, 2007

I was disappointed with this book. After reading the first few chapters of "Good Grief" (before it mysteriously disappeared), I thought I would read all of Lolly Winston's work and she could become a new favorite author. After reading "Happiness Sold Separately", I came to the following conclusions.......more

Goodreads review by Tiffany on August 17, 2012

With her signature mix of the dark and the funny, Lolly Winston poignantly captures the struggles of infertility and how it creeps into every aspect of your life. Ditto for infidelity, which she explores from every angle. I have to admit that I hated the end, but it had to go one way or the other. M......more

Goodreads review by Tmstprc on February 10, 2021

This starts with a bang, a well done confrontation with the husband and the OW; but then it starts to meander too much.......more

Goodreads review by Kate on January 02, 2008

Eleanor and Ted's marriage is pushed to a straining point when Eleanor finds out that Ted has been having an affair with his personal assistant Gina. The feelings between the characters are complicated. Eleanor and Ted have been struggling with infertility for years. Gina is a single mother whose so......more

Goodreads review by Ye'Vell Hopkins on June 12, 2017

This book read like every day life. The story was tangible and real. We love, we hurt, we heal, we deny ourselves and we're beautifully broken. I wish the author would have allowed us to witness Ted's, Toby's, Gina's and Elinor's happy ending, it's not something I want to imagine, reading about it e......more

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