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Hope is beginning to lose her grip. She has three unruly children (well, four if you count her hopeless husband), a high-powered job in real estate on Long Island that keeps her permanently stressed and overworked, a glamorous ex-husband who she is still in love with and a serious nanny crisis. The fifth childminder in nearly as many weeks has walked out and, today of all days, when she has a 1.5 million dollar house to sell, she is left holding the baby ¿ literally.
In desperation, Hope calls England and asks her sister-in-law to send Mary Poppins. Instead she sends Annabel and Annabel isn¿t quite what Hope had in mind ¿ she has had very little experience with children, she hardly knows anything about babies, she cannot drive and the real reason she has come to America is to escape her own problems.
But miraculously Annabel becomes the answer to everyone¿s prayers: the children become less unruly, the husband becomes less hopeless, the ex-husband is suddenly less glamorous and Hope begins to regain control of her life. But why was it that Annabel left England in such a hurry? And now that she has solved everyone else¿s problems what about her own?
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Review:
All the elements that made Carol Upchurch's previous books so successful are present in The Asking Price, and the reader is thoroughly engrossed within the first few pages. Many reviewers lined up to praise such earlier novels by Upchurch as Grace and Favour and Falling for Mr Wrong, singling out her sharp and perceptive character analysis and highly surprising plots. Her secret is to combine the elements of passion and betrayal with plotting of real invention: here, her protagonist Hope is struggling to keep three difficult children in check (not to mention her disorganised husband) while she holds down a prestigious real estate job on Long Island. When things start to collapse around her, she calls England and asks her sister-in-law if she can supply a reliable childminder; what she gets is Annabel, a troubled girl who has come to America to escape her own past, and Hope's problems are soon bigger than before. As a thoroughly involving tale of two very different women coping with each other's lives and the problems of relationships, Upchurch absolutely defines the term page-turner with this new novel. --Barry Forshaw
Book Description:
Caroline Upcher has written a wonderful story of two very different women thrown together who will change each other¿s lives from they day they meet.
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- PublisherUlverscroft Large Print Books Ltd
- Publication date2001
- ISBN 10 0708944655
- ISBN 13 9780708944653
- BindingHardcover
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