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  <name><![CDATA[Elise Chidley]]></name>
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  <about><![CDATA[I'm a mother, writer and avid reader, currently living in Connecticut, USA. I grew up in Swaziland and South Africa, and studied in Durban, Edinburgh and Pennsylvania. My taste in books is varied, and I would read the dictionary if I was stranded with it on a desert island. I have this vague ambition to catalogue all the books I've ever read, but I think I've forgotten more than half of them. That's the joy of goodreads--you come across titles you would never otherwise remember. 

My second novel, [book: Married With Baggage] is now on shelves!

My first novel, [book: Your Roots Are Showing] is a finalist in two categories of the 2009 RITAs: Best First Book and Best Single Title Contemporary Romance. 

 &quot;Chidley hits it out of the park with her debut novel. She finds humor in the mundane and absolutely nails Lizzie's character arc. With spot-on writing, Chidley has created a heroine readers will care about.&quot;
--Romantic Times BOOKreviews on YOUR ROOTS ARE SHOWING

This book will strike a chord with anyone who ever struggled to lose her baby weight, anyone who ever neglected her hair-do--or her husband--in those fraught years of early motherhood. 
 
   In this funny, uplifting novel Lizzie Buckley, mother of toddler twins, fantasizes about chucking in her picture-perfect life for a box of chocolates and an uninterrupted bath. But when she vents her frustrations with married life in an email--and sends it to her husband by mistake--her 'happy ending' begins to unravel with a vengeance. All too soon, Lizzie finds herself uprooting her children to start over in a ramshackle cottage with an overgrown garden, where she struggles to re-invent herself and forget about her soon-to-be ex.

MORE PRAISE FOR Your Roots Are Showing

&quot;Look no further for a delicious, romantic story, written with wit and a light touch.&quot; --Elizabeth Buchan, New York Times bestselling author of Revenge of the Middle-Aged Woman.

&quot;Toe-curlingly observant and wonderfully heartwarming--I loved it!&quot; --Gemma Townley, author of The Importance of Being Married.

&quot;Absolutely wonderful. . . a charming debut, not to be missed.&quot; --Jane Porter, author of Flirting with Forty.
Check out Elise Chidley's blog at www.elisechidley.wordpress.com 

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