One Less Problem Without You, Beth Harbison
One Less Problem Without You, Beth Harbison
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One Less Problem Without You
A Novel

Author: Beth Harbison

Narrator: Orlagh Cassidy

Unabridged: 7 hr 38 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 07/26/2016

Categories: Fiction, Women


Synopsis

Meet Prinny, Chelsea and Diana. Prinny is the owner of Cosmos, a shop that sells crystals, potions, candles, and hope. It’s also a place where no one turns down a little extra-special cocktail that can work as a romance potion or heal a broken heart. But Prinny is in love with her married lawyer and she’ll need nothing short of magic to forget about him.

Chelsea works as a living statue at tourist sites around Washington, DC. It's a thankless job, but it helps pay the rent. That, and her part-time job at Cosmos. As her dream of becoming a successful actress starts to seem more remote and the possibility of being a permanently struggling one seems more realistic, Chelsea begins to wonder: at one point do you give up on your dreams? And will love ever be in the cards for her?

Diana Tiesman is married to Leif, a charismatic man who isn’t faithful. But no matter how many times he lets her down, Diana just can't let him go. She knows the only way she can truly breakaway is if she leaves and goes where he will never think to follow. So she ends up at Cosmos with Leif’s stepsister, where she makes her homemade teas and tinctures as she figures out whether she'd rather be lonely alone than lonely in love.

In Beth Harbinson's One Less Problem Without You, three women suddenly find themselves together at their own very different crossroads. It will take hope, love, strength and a little bit of magic for them to find their way together.

About Beth Harbison

Beth Harbison is the New York Times bestselling author of Secrets of a Shoe Addict, Shoe Addicts Anonymous, Hope in a Jar and Thin, Rich, Pretty. She is also a serious product junkie, with enough lip glosses, shampoos, conditioners, and foundations to lube every car on the streets of suburban D.C., where she lives with her husband, two children and dogs.

About Orlagh Cassidy

Orlagh Cassidy is the winner of the 2009 Best Voice in Children & Family Listening and the 2008 and 2011 Best Voice in Mystery & Suspense. She’s narrated for Jacqueline Winspear, James Patterson, Erica Spindler, Beth Harbison, and Frank Herbert, among others. Cassidy’s Broadway credits include Present Laughter with Frank Langella, Our Country's Good, and Suddenly Last Summer.  She has appeared Off-Broadway in Bright Ideas and The Field at The Irish Rep (Drama Desk Nomination). She was "Doris Wolfe" on The Guiding Light and her other television appearances include Sex and the City, Law & Order, Law and Order SVU, and Elementary.  She also appeared in the films Purple Violets, Young Adult, and Definitely, Maybe.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Alicia on August 15, 2016

Oh it pains me to write this review. I love Beth Harbison, I've read all her books and have always enjoyed her writing. So I was excited for this book. And it was just...no. First, let me just say...this book should come with a trigger warning for rape. I really really wish that was a thing put in boo......more

Goodreads review by Meredith (Trying to catch up!) on July 27, 2016

One Less Problem Without You isn’t your typical chick-lit book; it contains some very dark elements (sexual assault, as well verbal and physical abuse). Diana, Prinny, and Chelsea are tied together due to their relationships with a vile excuse for a man, Lief Tiesman. Diana has been married to Leif......more

Goodreads review by Carrie on July 18, 2016

One Less Problem Without You focuses on three women who find their lives interwoven together. Diana Tiesman has found out that her husband has been unfaithful and is desperate to escape him. Chelsea wants to be an actress but has found herself working as a living statue around the tourist sites but......more

Goodreads review by Sherri on June 30, 2017

Have you ever read a book and got 1/2 way through and asked "why am I reading this?" That's the category this book fell in for me. Just didn't get it at all.......more

Goodreads review by Cyndi on April 28, 2020

I liked this book better than I thought I would. Keep in mind though, this is not light reading. The characters are layered. We have a crystal shop. The owner is a …umm...spiritualist? You know, the tarot card reading, incense burning, amethyst for anxiety selling character. In the 1960's we would h......more