false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255792425m/5395005.jpg 5395005 1 <b><big><p align="center">What happens when you think you know the person you love -- and you're dead wrong?</big></b><P><b>From the acclaimed author of <b>Waiting to Surface</b> comes the story of four college friends whose reunion reawakens old desires and grudges -- with fatal results.</b><P>After tossing and turning all night, thirty-nine-year-old Lisa Barkley wakes up well before her alarm sounds. With two daughters about to start another year at their elite Upper East Side private school and her own career hitting a wall, the effort of trying to stay afloat in that privileged world of six-story town houses and European jaunts has become increasingly difficult, especially as Manhattan descends into an economic freefall.<P>As Lisa looks over at her sleeping husband, Sam, she can't help but feel that their fifteen-year marriage is in a funk that she isn't able to place. She tries to shake it off and tells herself that the strain must be due to their mounting financial pressures. But later that morning, as her family eats breakfast in the next room, Lisa finds herself checking Sam's voicemail and hears a whispered phone call from a woman he is to meet that night. Is he having an affair?<P>When Lisa shares her suspicions with her best friend, Deirdre, at their weekly breakfast, Deirdre claims it can't be true. But how can Lisa fully trust her opinion when Deirdre is still single and mired in an obsessive affair with a glamorous photographer even as it hovers on the edge of danger?<P>When Deirdre's former college flame, Jack, comes to town and the two couples meet to cele-brate his fortieth birthday, the stage is set for an explosiveT series of discoveries with devastating consequences.<P>Filled with suspense and provocative ques-tions about the relationships we value most, <I>Best Intentions</i> is a tightly woven drama of love, friendship and betrayal. 5462531 5 5 2009 Best Intentions: A Novel total:79|5:8|4:31|3:32|2:5|1:3| 79 273 187 33 3 0 false false Sat Jun 13 13:03:22 -0700 2009 Sun Jun 14 08:30:00 -0700 2009 Lisa is married with two children, and a best friend. Sounds typical, but it's anything but typical. Full of surprises, things you think are going to happen may or may not, things that do happen, you didn't expect to. Do you really know the...more...]]> 5 1 false false Sat Jun 06 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Jun 09 17:20:22 -0700 2009 Tue Jun 09 17:20:49 -0700 2009
...more...]]> 4 0 false false Sun May 17 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun May 31 02:25:53 -0700 2009 Sun May 31 02:26:45 -0700 2009 1 Best Intentions, I was a little unsure. I needn’t have worried, however, as it was nothing like I expected; a beautiful read that was over far too quick for...more...]]> 3 0 false false Thu Aug 13 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Aug 13 12:32:11 -0700 2009 Thu Aug 13 12:32:26 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Sun May 17 04:22:27 -0700 2009 Sun May 17 04:23:32 -0700 2009 I thoroughly enjoyed the authors intelligent and wonderful prose. Emily Listfield allows us a profound look into the lives of each character, especially Lisa Barkley, through whom we learn th...more...]]> 4 0 false false Mon May 11 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Apr 29 07:07:25 -0700 2009 Tue May 05 14:50:17 -0700 2009 On the surface, Lisa Barkley seems to have it all -- a husband who was her college sweetheart, two lovely daughters, a high-powered PR job, a residence in Manhattan, and a best friend she's had since college. But Lisa's life isn't as perfect as it may seem on the outside.

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I was wrong.

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