If you intend to read this book, don't go fishing around on the internet unless you want to know what happens. I liked not knowing. This is the second book I've read by her and thought the first was okay, but this was totally different and kind of blew me away. The author is obviously a mother and wife herself to garner the dead-on insights into her main character. Even though my children are still small, I could appreciate her descriptions of mothering teenagers. It reminded me how being the mother of young children, although a lot of work, is so simple and uncomplicated compared to what is ahead. I loved Mary-Beth, she felt like a friend.