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Christy Hayes Drummond, Olympic athlete turned business mogul, has it all - fame, money, a gorgeous and powerful CEO husband. But when she adopts 11-year-old Renata, her enviable world starts to unravel. Soon she's battling it out with three formidable opponents: a ruthless business partner intent on ousting her from the company she started; a tyrannical stay-at-home mum who'll stop at nothing to maintain her PTA powerbase, and a stunning singleton who's determined to become the third Mrs Michael Drummond. From the Upper East Side of Manhattan to the lush seaside village of St Tropez and the glamorous resort towns of Davos and Aspen, Christy tries valiantly to succeed at the work that feeds her soul and the family that captures her heart. And while Christy is not your average woman, her funny, heartbreaking and absurd journey will strike a chord with any one who has ever dared to dream of having it all.
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After losing a big corporate job, Karen Quinn helped found Smart City Kids, a New York-based company dedicated to guiding families through the application process to Manhattan's most competitive schools. Now a full-time writer, she lives in New York CIty. Visit www.karenquinn.net
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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars
Adequate at best,
By littlemissme (UK) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Wife in the Fast Lane (Paperback)
I read, and thoroughly enjoyed, "The Ivy Chronicles", so when I saw that Karen Quinn had a new book out I didn't think twice about buying it. I'd like my money back now, please. Ivy was everything Christy is not - engaging, believable, funny, likeable. The plot of this novel clunks badly, leaping from incident to incident with no real narrative thread, and the ending is a big fat two-dimensional cliche which seems to have taken an express trip away from Planet Reality. (Goats? In a Manhattan apartment? You what?) There were moments when I found myself wondering if the two books had really been written by the same woman. Quinn's first outing was above the common run of pink-covered chicklit, but "Wife in the Fast Lane" belongs firmly in the slush pile with the rest. My advice: don't bother.
2 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Comedy, with feeling.,
By Rosie Lee (London, England) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Wife in the Fast Lane (Paperback)
Wife in the Fast Lane is Karen Quinn's second book. I loved The Ivy Chronicles and wasn't disappointed by Ms Quinn's second book which is great fun, but has a serious side. It is a `feel good' book without being saccharine and cloying, and the characters aren't two-dimensional but real and believable. Christy Hayes had a strange life, her mother died when she was a child, her father trained her to be an Olympic runner, then she built a huge business selling running shoes. She doesn't know much about relationships or families but soon learns by her mistakes when she acquires a husband and an adopted child in barely a year. There are some delightful characters, and some that are far from admirable, but all are believable. Even the bad guys in the story are understandably human, although not likeable. In the end, justice is done and everyone learns lessons. It isn't necessarily `happy ever after' but the opportunity is there for all the characters to make a happy life if they choose. Above all, the book is fun, reads well and leaves the reader wanting more. I look forward to Karen Quinn's next book.
0 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Entertaining, relaxing and fun to read!,
By Patience (Greece) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Wife in the Fast Lane (Paperback)
I read The Ivy Chronicles last year and really enjoyed Quinn's simple (but not simplistic) style. This book is just as good in my opinion. I find myself transported to Manhatten, following the lives of these very real and diverse characters. Their lives are very different to mine, but Quinn manages to make her characters so human that I feel I know them all, probably because I can immediately identify them with people I actually know in my own life. You get the feeling that this author really knows what she's writing about and has the gift to relay it to her readers. The dialogue is lively and realistic. I hope she writes many more books.
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