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by Barbara Delinsky (Author)
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  • Hardcover: 364 pages
  • Publisher: Simon & Schuster (27 Aug 2001)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0743204697
  • ISBN-13: 978-0743204699
  • Product Dimensions: 24.3 x 16.3 x 2.9 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 2,989,694 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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The lives of three couples are thrown into turmoil when their beautiful and much younger neighbor, who has been widowed for a year, announces that she is pregnant, forcing the wives to reevaluate their marriages and relationships.
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5.0 out of 5 stars A DECIDEDLY DELICIOUS READING, 21 Aug 2001
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This review is from: The Woman Next Door: 4cds, 4 Hours, 30 Minutes (Audio CD)
Tony Award winning actress Karen Ziemba renders a decidedly delicious reading to this story that gives block party a new name.

Spring arrives in Connecticut, but that's not all that's blossoming on a well-to-do block of homes - Gretchen, an attractive young widow who is not known to have been seeing anyone since the death of her husband a year ago, is pregnant.

If one were to guess who the father might be it would be one or another of three neighbors' husbands. Each of the men has been helpful to the grieving widow, and each is a likely suspect. One has strayed in the past, another is often left alone by his fast track business woman wife, and the third and his spouse have an infertility problem.

The author said she had "always been fascinated by neighborhood dynamics and the requisite balancing act between intimacy and separation." From that interest she has woven an intriguing tale as each woman takes a closer look at her marriage and the forces that impact it - in-laws, neighbors, children, fidelity, suspicion, and love.

In the end, the question is, exactly who is the woman next door?

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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars surprise, 6 Mar 2004
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This review is from: The Woman Next Door (Paperback)
This book has a bunch of characters that could easily pass for your own friends and neighbours, with common problems and concerns. It asks, and presses you to find out, "Who's the father of the baby?" and "Whose husband did it?" It definately has a surprise result to those questions.
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3.0 out of 5 stars Unconvincing, 16 Feb 2005
The book centres on 3 women who live in middle class suburbia. Of the three women, one Amanda can't have kids - she and her husband have been trying for six years with no joy. Then there's Karen whose marriage is falling apart with a cheating husband. Then there's the other one - forgot her name as she hardly features, but she has a 'stay at home husband'. All three women are fast friends. There is a fourth woman, whose recently been widowed. Her husband was much older than her leading to her being labelled as a gold digger (she's very attractive). Anyway, so the widow, Gretchen gets pregnant shortly after her husband dies leaving the rest of the women to speculate as to whom the father of her baby is. Slowly the three women previously mentioned start to think each of their husbands fathered Gretchen's baby. This is where the story just doesn't work. Why would you immediately suspect your husband of cheating just because the woman next door is pregnant? what if she wasn't pregnant, would the women still have suspected their husband? On top of that, the father could be anyone. Just because the three other women haven't seen Gretchen with a man doesn't mean she hasn't been sleeping with someone other than their husbands. The suspicion of the three wives is what Barbara uses to hold this story together and I'm afraid for me, it just didn't work.
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