An excellent book. Normally if I pick up a chick lit book and the publisher's blurb tells me it's funny, I put it straight down again. I can't remember what this book has on its back cover, but it *is* humorous - I laughed out loud while reading in public places. And yet the underlying message is serious enough and realistic enough that it goes right to the heart...of this reader, at least. Marital infidelity is the primary theme, as told through a woman's eyes. Despite me not being a woman, the narrator feels the things I would feel, and I suspect she's perceptive enough to discover the 'universal' truth of a given situation. This is apparently her first novel - I'll be watching out for more. ( )

Very well-written prose, but I felt like her lover's character was not very fleshed out. What was he like, and why exactly did she fall in love with him? Or is the point that it didn't really matter who he was, just that he was an escape from her boring everyday life? The ending also did not tie up ANY loose ends and leaves the reader hanging. I still enjoyed the book, however. ( )

I really enjoyed this book! I would've given it four stars but I did not like the ending. I like things to be all neat and tidy at the end. I had more questions than answers. ( )

Still Life with Husband is the story of Emily, a homely "good girl" who's used to her best friend getting all the attention. But when handsome David approaches her in a coffee shop, ignoring her best friend...she's gone. And she happens not to be wearing her wedding ring.

The roller coaster of a plot kept me glued to the book and I finished it in a day. Despite the changes in the narrator's life, I felt the novel
ended positively, and there was a wry humor throughout that leavened the story's events. ( )

A gut-wrenching, hard to read story about a woman who has an affair. After feeling incredible pressure from her husband to buy a house and start a family, she begins an affair that is elating at first and then devastating. Reading this book is like following her on a downward spiral. ( )