The Way Life Should Be, Christina Baker Kline
The Way Life Should Be, Christina Baker Kline
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The Way Life Should Be
A Novel

Author: Christina Baker Kline

Narrator: Caitlin Davies

Unabridged: 7 hr 19 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: HarperAudio

Published: 03/31/2015

Synopsis

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Orphan Train, and the critically acclaimed author of Bird in Hand, comes a novel of love, risk, and self-discovery—includes a special PS section featuring insights, interviews, and more.Angela can feel the clock ticking. She is single in New York City, stuck in a job she doesn’t want and a life that seems to have, somehow, just happened.  She inherited a flair for Italian cooking from her grandmother, but she never seems to have the time for it—these days, her oven holds only sweaters. Tacked to her office bulletin board is a photo from a magazine of a tidy cottage on the coast of Maine—a charming reminder of a life that could be hers, if she could only muster the courage to go after it.On a hope and a chance, Angela decides to pack it all up and move to Maine, finding the nudge she needs in the dating profile of a handsome sailor who loves dogs and Italian food.  But her new home isn’t quite matching up with the fantasy. Far from everything familiar, Angela begins to rebuild her life from the ground up. Working at a local coffeehouse, she begins to discover the pleasures and secrets of her new small-town community and, in the process, realizes there’s really no such thing as the way life should be.

About Christina Baker Kline

Christina Baker Kline is the author of six novels, including the #1 New York Times bestseller Orphan Train as well as A Piece of the World. She lives outside New York City and spends as much time as possible on the coast of Maine. Learn more about Christina at www.christinabakerkline.com.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Carol on September 25, 2015

Christina Baker Kline has a very readable, transparent writing style, spot-on dialogue, and characters I feel like I know. Angela Russo is a single, thirty-something event planner in New York. When an important charity event goes all wrong, she loses her job. She impulsively decides to move to Maine......more

Goodreads review by Karen on October 19, 2024

This is a book I picked up at a Library book sale on this trip in 2018. I had read Orphan Train and really enjoyed the authors style of writing. So I was curious if she could do it again for me. She does not disappoint! Christina Baker Kline has a very readable, wonderful writing style, easy-going d......more

Goodreads review by Sharon on August 21, 2018

Wow, Christina Baker Kline has really evolved from this (one of first novels) to her critically-acclaimed follow ups Orphan Train and a A Piece Of The World. Hmmmm. That sounded like a back-handed compliment. And it’s not meant to be; I’m just really impressed at how much she’s matured as a writer o......more

Goodreads review by Amy on October 27, 2021

A good three, three and a half maybe. 3.3? Christina Baker Kline has been my author of the year, and I admit that I have read all of her fiction works except one, and none of her non-fiction ones. I did discover that she has a non-fiction book on Feminism, which would have worked for the Feminism ta......more

Goodreads review by Scott on April 28, 2014

Easy and light, with a horribly cliched front end, and a tail that sort of drifts off... This is a hard book to review. The first few chapters are painfully bad, and were I to stop there, it would have gotten a very bad review indeed. It does pick up from there, and is a bit charming in places, and......more

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