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From the author of Good in Bed, In Her Shoes and the forthcomingWho Do You Lovecomes a novel about a woman with a dark secret ... Allison Weiss is a typical working mother, trying to balance a business, ageing parents, a demanding daughter and a marriage. But when the website she develops becomes a huge success, she finds herself challenged to the point of being completely overwhelmed. As she struggles to hold her life together and meet the needs of all the people around her, Allison finds that the painkillers she was prescribed for a back injury help her deal with more than just physical discomfort - they make her feel calm and get her through the increasingly hectic days. Sure, she worries that the bottles seem to empty a bit faster each week, but it's not like she's some Hollywood starlet partying all night. It's not as if she has an actual problem. Until she ends up in a world she never thought she'd experience outside of a movie theatre: rehab. And as Allison struggles to get her life back on track, she learns a few life lessons along the way.
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Out for the day with her daughter, our protagonist encounters a homeless woman about her own age. A few minutes later, on their way to suburbia, she thinks:
I was a world away from the woman we'd seen. That woman – she was what addiction looked like. Not me. Not me.
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I quit after about 3 chapters. The main character had not one ounce of likeability.
I was planning to give this book 3 stars for being a mediocre, Lifetime TV-movie saga about prescription drug abuse, but then I found myself caught up in the story and had a hard time separating myself emotionally from the characters. So I guess it's 4 stars after all. By far my least favorite Weiner book, though, because of the pedestrian, predictable plot.
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