Lisa Verge Higgins





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Lisa Verge Higgins is the RITA-nominated author of fifteen novels that have been published worldwide and translated into as many languages--quite a switch for this former PhD candidate in chemistry. Now this opera loving mother of three is creating heartwarming new stories revolving around women's lives and women's friendship. THE PROPER CARE AND MAINTENANCE OF FRIENDSHIP, her first foray into mainstream women's fiction, won the 2011 Golden Leaf Award for Best Single Title, and was chosen as one of the top twenty novels of the year by the Barnes & Noble General Fiction Book Club. Her second book, ONE GOOD FRIEND DESERVES ANOTHER, cracked the same list in 2012. Find out more about Lisa--and peruse the first few chapters of her books-- at...more


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Published on May 21, 2013 07:09
Average rating: 3.61 · 1,120 ratings · 242 reviews · 3 distinct works · Similar authors
The Proper Care and Mainten...
3.6 of 5 stars 3.60 avg rating — 796 ratings — published 2011 — 15 editions
One Good Friend Deserves An...
3.57 of 5 stars 3.57 avg rating — 282 ratings — published 2012 — 4 editions
Friendship Makes the Heart ...
3.85 of 5 stars 3.85 avg rating — 41 ratings — published 2013 — 2 editions

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Friendship Makes The Heart Grow Fonder (Literature & Fiction)
1 chapters   —   updated Nov 09, 2012 11:27am
Description: Lenny left his wife, Monique, a bucket list of things they'd dreamed of doing together before cancer took his life. For four years, she ignored it, too busy raising their daughter to consider the painful task of resurrecting shattered dreams. But when her next-door neighbor, Judy, starts a slow slide into a personal crisis, and another friend, Becky, receives shocking news about her future, Monique realizes that Lenny's legacy could be a gift to three women in desperate need of a new perspective. Whisking away her friends on adventures from London to Paris, from Monaco to Milan, she is determined to follow the bucket list to the letter--until one eventful evening knocks the three friends off the beaten path. Caught up in adventures of their own making, they begin to understand: Sometimes getting lost is the only way to find what you're looking for.
One Good Friend Deserves Another (Literature & Fiction)
1 chapters   —   updated Apr 03, 2012 08:15am
Description: Dhara, Kelly, Marta and Wendy have been the closest of friends since college, so close, that after a series of romantic disasters, they bond together to create rules of relationships meant to keep their hearts safe. Those rules seemed to have worked, until Marta discovers that her hot boyfriend is married, Kelly begins a risky love affair, Wendy inches closer to a pre-marital infidelity, and, most shocking of all, Indian-American Dhara suddenly agrees to an arranged marriage. As old relationships crumble and dangerous new ones emerge, each women must decide how much she’d risk—for love, for happiness, and most importantly, for each another.
The Proper Care and Maintenance of Friendship (Literature & Fiction)
1 chapters   —   updated Sep 15, 2010 01:29pm
Description: When three women each receive a letter from a dying friend, old loyalties drive them to fulfill her last wishes. But those last wishes turn out to be world-rocking tasks that threaten to upend their ordinary lives. With a career at risk, a marriage in jeopardy, and a heart in terrible danger of breaking, these three women discover an essential truth: The only thing that can save them is friendship.

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The Proper Care and Maintenance of Friendship by Lisa Verge Higgins
" This was a wonderful story that every woman should read. Real friends are sometimes hard to find and retain. When they are "true blue," you do so much because of the mutual love and respect. We should all be so blessed.

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The Proper Care And Maintenance Of Friendship by Lisa Verge Higgins
" Enjoyed! Teared up a few times even. :) "
Friendship Makes the Heart Grow Fonder by Lisa Verge Higgins
" An uplifting story of three women fulfilling a bucket list in europe. A great story for all women going through life's passages. "
Lisa Higgins wants to read
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Lisa Higgins rated a book 4 of 5 stars
Heart of the Matter by Emily Giffin
Heart of the Matter
by Emily Giffin (Goodreads Author)
read in April, 2013
An emotional story unexpectedly about forgiveness and grace.
"Coralie wrote: "Sounds wonderful. Hope we get it in Australia."

I hope you do, too! I've only seen one episode so far,and both benedict Cumberbatch and...more
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Lisa Higgins wants to read
Wallflower in Bloom by Claire Cook
Wallflower in Bloom
by Claire Cook (Goodreads Author)
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“there's this thing about rainbows. they're perfect from afar. but when you get real close to them, they just disappear.”
Lisa Verge Higgins

“Any fool could see that you're at the reeling end of a long, strong rope - soon enough, It'll be tugging you back.”
Lisa Verge Higgins, The Proper Care and Maintenance of Friendship

“Any sharp transition such as this was like birth; the pain was necessary to remind you of its importance.”
Lisa Verge Higgins, The Proper Care and Maintenance of Friendship

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Penelope Marzec Thanks for your friendship. Nice to see you here. :^)


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