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Together Alone
by
Barbara Delinsky (Goodreads Author)
Barbara Delinsky, the author of the "New York Times" bestsellers "For My Daughters" and "Suddenly," has always written about topics close to women's hearts. This book tells the story of three friends who send their only daughters off to college and are left searching for meaning in their own lives.
Paperback, 512 pages
Published
December 22nd 1995
by HarperTorch
(first published February 1st 1995)
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Together Alone by Barbara Delinkky
3 woman send their children to college and they wonder how to fill their empty days.
Kay Davies will work. Celeste Prince will plan a nose job, romance and sex via an ad. Love how the women get together and figure out exactly what to write for the ad.
Emily Arkin has time now to finally heal from the hurt and reunite with her husband but he's not home much due to work.
She's fearful and alone and takes in a boarder-a widower with an infant. She helps him fix up the...more
3 woman send their children to college and they wonder how to fill their empty days.
Kay Davies will work. Celeste Prince will plan a nose job, romance and sex via an ad. Love how the women get together and figure out exactly what to write for the ad.
Emily Arkin has time now to finally heal from the hurt and reunite with her husband but he's not home much due to work.
She's fearful and alone and takes in a boarder-a widower with an infant. She helps him fix up the...more
I'm just breezing through these novels. I LOVE 'em!!
From back cover:
"Emily, Kay, and Celeste have been best friends forever. Their daughters are close, too, but all the girls are off to college now, and the mothers must redefine themselves as women. Emily, once half of the perfect marriage, hardly knows her workaholic husband Doug anymore. What she wants so badly from him is being offered by her new neighbour, a widower with heart, soul, and grit. Kay, a dedicated teacher, still loves her job, b...more
From back cover:
"Emily, Kay, and Celeste have been best friends forever. Their daughters are close, too, but all the girls are off to college now, and the mothers must redefine themselves as women. Emily, once half of the perfect marriage, hardly knows her workaholic husband Doug anymore. What she wants so badly from him is being offered by her new neighbour, a widower with heart, soul, and grit. Kay, a dedicated teacher, still loves her job, b...more
Quick read, interesting characters.
However, there are 2 things that bother me about this book. First, Emily/Brian/Doug/Daniel seemed to be the main storylines in the book. Kay/John/Celeste/Freedom almost seemed slapped in the book to make it longer and somehow more interesting. All it did was detract from the main storylines.
Also, the "mystery" about Daniel had so much foreshadowing going on that it was too easy to figure out exactly what happened hundreds of pages before the mystery was solved...more
However, there are 2 things that bother me about this book. First, Emily/Brian/Doug/Daniel seemed to be the main storylines in the book. Kay/John/Celeste/Freedom almost seemed slapped in the book to make it longer and somehow more interesting. All it did was detract from the main storylines.
Also, the "mystery" about Daniel had so much foreshadowing going on that it was too easy to figure out exactly what happened hundreds of pages before the mystery was solved...more
Sep 04, 2012
Sarah
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Another one of those books that I pick up to read whilst doing my exercise, because it's always entertaining, and yet doesn't require much thought.
Emily, Kay and Celeste have all just sent their daughters off to college. Their lives have suddenly changed, without anyone to look after anymore. Emily, realizes that she doesn't really connect with her workaholic husband, without her daughter around. Instead, she finds herself being attracted to her new neighbour. Kay, who is a school teacher, finds...more
Emily, Kay and Celeste have all just sent their daughters off to college. Their lives have suddenly changed, without anyone to look after anymore. Emily, realizes that she doesn't really connect with her workaholic husband, without her daughter around. Instead, she finds herself being attracted to her new neighbour. Kay, who is a school teacher, finds...more
What do you call a book that's neither chick lit, romance, or literary fiction? I'm not sure what this book was other than a good read for an airplane. It took place in the early 90s, so it was kind of annoying to read about women being suspicious of the men in their lives and not being able to contact them because they didn't have the number where they were staying (and they didn't have cell phones). A good portion of the story was also focused on kidnapping, and the type of search the police a...more
i wasn't as fond of this book as some of her others. maybe I'm just tired of the meek little perfect housewives/mothers that are doormats for their families and then are crushed when they realize how terrible their husbands really are...sigh. it took me 2 seconds to realize it and it takes them 20 years? I think I need to find a good mystery that doesn't involve any romance :) this wasn't a terrible book...it had its good things but definitely not the best book I've read
I have enjoyed some of Barbara Delinsky's latest books so I decided to delve into her early works. This book was a big disappointment. In fact, I just skimmed to the end and called it good. The women were very predictable and whiny, the men very stereotypical. The plot was obvious from the second chapter, so I didn't see any need to endure the writing to get to the end. I'll stick to the more seasoned and better developed Delinsky.
Barbara Delinsky has written a very thought provoking and emotional book with Together Alone. Although some parts were predictable, it still left you guessing enough to not be 100% sure. The story is about a little boy who was kidnapped and how that event shaped the lives of his parents and sister. The characters are very easy to get to know and they keep you thinking about them even when youre not reading. The ending was good as it gives closure to everything.
This book is yet another well-written story by Barbara Delinsky. Plenty of interesting story lines, characters who are well-defined but not perfect, good tension in the mystery part of the story, and a little romance thrown in to boot.
Very fast read, great for those times when you just want to relax and not have to work too hard, but don't want anything that moves too slow.
Very fast read, great for those times when you just want to relax and not have to work too hard, but don't want anything that moves too slow.
I am a big Barbara Delinsky reader and i have to say this is my favorite so far. She always keeps me interested and the books lead you in one direction and then a quick turn comes along and it doesn't end at all how you expected. Its always nice to read a book that you don't have figured out by the first 5 chapters. This author always captivates my attention!
I read this the month I drove both my daughters to Louisiana to go back to college after Christmas break. I think one of the reasons I enjoyed it so much is that I like to read books similar to something I am going thru in my life. However, I would have liked the book no matter when I read it. It held my interest and I liked the characters.
I liked this novel even though it reminded me less of a Jodi Picoult and mire of a soap opera. A lot of things happened to a few close families in a very small town within a short period of time. The chances of that happening in real life are slim to none. But that's one of the reasons I loved this novel. It's realistic in each individual happenstance. And still ends up in a happily ever after ending.
I enjoy books about women and this was fine to read on vacation but not necessarily very deep... just felt like some scenarios were trite and have been done before... how many different ways can you write about a husband cheating on a wife and her getting over it????
I really did not enjoy reading this book. I found myself hating all of the main female characters; they were all such stereotypes and I was so frustrated by their astounding lack of insight into their own situations. Ugh!
This was an easy read but a little bit hard to get into at first. The plot was predictable and the characters quite stereotypical, but at the same time I was engaged in the story.
I didn't know what to think of this book at the beginning. The characters were older than I, having kids going off to college, whereas I have no children. However, the more I read, the more I'm drawn into the story.
I'm nearing the end, and of course have some suspicions on what I think will happen, so I cannot wait to finish it. A good simple read so far.
I'm nearing the end, and of course have some suspicions on what I think will happen, so I cannot wait to finish it. A good simple read so far.
when you are looking for a story that tells something about friendship & family,then this book is definitely a good one to grab on.....thumbs up for this...
A good read- the kind of book I could not put down once I got started. I was looking for an author similar to Jodi Picoult, and I was not disappointed.
One of my favorites by author. Read it quite a while ago but I remember really liking it and then giving it to my mom to read. She loved it also.
I found it to be fairly good but at times the story dragged out. Also, you knew almost from the beginning how the main plot would end.
Couldn't put this one down! I started reading it one day on my lunch break at work, so I HAD to put it down, but picked it up this weekend and read 400+ pages in one day!! Great book. :)
Decent read by Barbara Delinsky. It was published in 1995 and a lot of the details make the book seem older than it is.
Interesting book about a woman whose daughter goes off to college causing the collapse of her marriage. Also brings to surface the kidnapping of her son 19 years ago... Very interesting book, well written and good ending.
Tender story of a woman self discovery and about her strengths and who she is. A little hanky panky to flip past.
Not one of my favorites. Just finished because I can't not finish a book. Skip and read not my daughter instead.
Can't help myself - I love all her books. One of my favorite "cotton-candy-for-the-brain" type authors.
Pretty decent. Not the best, certainly not the worst. I did enjoy, just a few slow going book.
I decided to take a break from historical fiction and picked this up from the library. Have not formed an opinion yet.
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So far - so good. Only problem is that I can see where it is going already. It could have had a little more suspense to it but -
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Well it did end up where I thought it would but I enjoyed the journey anyway. It was easy to become engrossed in the characters. I could not really buy the elderly neighbor's selective senility but t was easy to become invol...more
Good book, read it in two days. A few things were predictable but it still kept me entertained.
I hate when women are depicted as sniveling idiots. This book exemplifies that....
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I was born and raised in suburban Boston. My mother’s death, when I was eight, was the defining event of a childhood that was otherwise ordinary. I took piano lessons and flute lessons. I took ballroom dancing lessons. I went to summer camp through my fifteenth year (in Maine, which explains the setting of so many of my stories), then spent my sixteenth summer learning to type and to drive (two sk...more
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