Until the Real Thing Comes Along, Elizabeth Berg
Until the Real Thing Comes Along, Elizabeth Berg
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Until the Real Thing Comes Along

Author: Elizabeth Berg

Narrator: Kate Rudd

Unabridged: 6 hr 10 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 04/01/2014

Synopsis

Patty Murphy is facing that pivotal point in a woman's life when her biological clock ticks as insistently as a beating heart. Will she find Mr. Right and start a family? But Patty is in love—with a man who is not only attractive and financially sound, but sensitive and warmhearted. There's just one small problem: he is also gay.Against her better judgment, and pleas from family and friends, Patty refuses to give up on Ethan. Every man she dates ultimately leaves her aching for the gentle comfort and intimacy she shares with him. But even as she throws eligible bachelors to the wayside to spend yet another platonic night with Ethan, Patty longs more and more for the consolation of loving and being loved. In the meantime she must content herself with waiting—until the real thing comes along.…

About Elizabeth Berg

Elizabeth Berg is the New York Times bestselling author of many novels, including The Year of Pleasures, The Art of Mending, Say When, True to Form, Never Change, and Open House, which was an Oprah’s Book Club selection in 2000. Durable Goods and Joy School were selected as ALA Best Books of the Year, and Talk Before Sleep was short-listed for the ABBY award in 1996. The winner of the 1997 New England Booksellers Award for her body of work, Berg is also the author of a nonfiction work, Escaping Into the Open: The Art of Writing True. She lives in Chicago.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Marie

I was disappointed in this book. This is not one of Berg's best, yet it is still a pretty good read. Patty (the title character) is the least likable main character that Berg has done. If she were a friend of mine I would want to shake her and tell her to grow up and watch the movie "He's Just Not T......more

Goodreads review by Book Concierge

From the book jacket: What do you do when your life isn’t living up to your dreams? When the man you love is unavailable, and yet you long for a family, a home? What is the cost of compromising until the real thing comes along? My reactions I really wanted to like this. I’ve read a number of Berg’s bo......more

Goodreads review by Ruth

I have read many of Elizabeth Berg's books and have thoroughly enjoyed them. This one was an exception. The premise of the book is a mid-thirty year old who is feeling her biological clock ticking. Although she dates men, no one ever lives up to her high school sweetheart who is gay and unavailable......more

Goodreads review by Joan

Berg's books are extremely readable and her ear for dialogue is remarkable. This particular novel is about a 36 year old woman in love with a gay man. They had been connected since childhood, had an affair before he "came out" and are best friends. The woman, Patty, desperately desires a baby,but is......more

Goodreads review by Mikkee

I normally LOVE Elizabeth Berg's books, but I did not like this one at all. The main character was annoying and selfish and really didn't change through the telling of the book. She threw a fit and got what she wanted and hurt people in the process. The author called it growth. I called it continued......more

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