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How to Break Your Own Heart

By: Maggie Alderson
Narrated by: Catherine Milte
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Amelia Bradlow seems to have everything she needs to be happy - a handsome husband, a beautiful home, money, good looks and a glamourous job. Everything, that is, except the thing she wants most - a baby.

Ed, her husband, is funny, affectionate and sophisticated but simply not interested in parenthood. He likes his life neat and tidy. And he likes having a wife who attends solely to his needs.

As she approaches 37, Amelia is faced with a life-changing decision. Should she stay in her nearly happy marriage, or expose herself to the vagaries of single life and the distant possibility of meeting someone who wants to start a family?

©2009 Maggie Alderson. By arrangement with Penguin Group (Australia) (P)2009 Bolinda Publishing Family Life Genre Fiction Funny

Editorial reviews

What separates Maggie Alderson’s clever How to Break Your Own Heart from other chick lit offerings is her candid, fully realized portrayal of 37-year-old protagonist Amelia, who is forced to reevaluate her 15-year marriage to frustratingly conventional and overly fastidious husband Ed after she realizes his enthusiasm for having children doesn’t quite match hers.

Catherine Milte’s lively, animated performance guides the listener through this immensely entertaining listen, particularly in her portrayal of Amelia’s affluent, sharp-tongued, and fashion-obsessed friend Kiki, the catalyst for Amelia’s rediscovery of her independence and zest for life.

Critic reviews

"At last we've found her, the female Seinfeld. Warm, witty, wise and well-dressed, Alderson is the haute couture of humour." (Kathy Lette)
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This is the first (entire) book I have finished for pleasure in maybe 20 years… it was a nice combination of funny, serious, emotional, and realistic… I’ll have to check out another of Alderson’s titles.

Lovely distraction

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This is not a bad story, but I expected better from Maggie Alderson after listening to "Cents and Sensibility".

An average read

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