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"The Ladies Who Lunch" "The Middle Aged Woman's Guide to Modern Morality" <P>The middle aged women depicted in this story are still glamorous, thanks to the art of skilled plastic surgeons, are married or wish they were, spend a great deal of time deciding what to wear to the many luncheons and black tie events they go to and vie with each other to get their pictures in the Chicago and suburban society columns of the newspapers. They are bound together by a Ladies Who Lunch group as well as by their shared expectations about how their lives would be when they grew up. <P>The story opens when Sandra, a real estate agent and thus the most informed gossip of the group, calls a luncheon meeting at the Four Seasons Hotel's dining room to tell the girls about their friend Linda's impending divorce. The shock of hearing that this all American couple is getting divorced causes each woman to examine her own relationship with her husband and decide how she will live her life in the future. <P>Natalie, the plump, unhappy, chocolate loving wife of a successful businessman who demeans her both privately and publicly breaks her marriage vows when she is swept off her feet by a very handsome stranger. <P>Bridgette, the discarded wife of a self made businessman who cared more about being a father than a husband, is about to marry a man whom she doesn't love but who can provide her with even more wealth and a higher social position than she had when she was married. <P>Linda who has been spoiled by the charmed life she has led from the time she was young to present because she was the epitome of the cute, curly haired, delightful little blond is suddenly confronted with the fact that her husband has been unfaithful to her. <P>Rebecca who has really enjoyed a wonderful life from childhood to adulthood is living proof that, "They lived happily ever after," can sometimes happen. Although she is a snob, rather prudish and a bit too 'Pollyannaish,' she is a loyal friend. <P>See inside the book for a list of other colorful characters depicted in this novel.
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This book gives an insightful look at our modern society and shows how the changing rules of behavior and morals has affected all of us. The middle aged women in this story were raised with very strict Christian and Victorian morals. They were expected to be virgins on their wedding nights, to marry and to live 'happily ever after' with their husbands and children. Sadly, this was not the reality.

Ms. Kern's novel tells the stories of four women. Linda, the epitome of the 'cute little blond,' discovers her husband in an affair and decides to divorce him.

Natalie, a chocolate loving, slightly overweight, but very moral woman, breaks her marriage vows when she is swept off her feet by a handsome stranger only to be disillusioned by him later.

Bridgette, a hot little brunette divorcee, is determined to marry a wealthy man so she can re-enter Rolling Hills society from which she was thrown out after her husband divorced her.

Rebecca alone is living the life that all the other women would have liked to live. She is happily married with grown children who are busy making her and her husband grandparents.

Ms. Kern's novel is humorous as well as sensitive to the emotional trials these women are going through.

This novel is better than "First Wives Club" and much more realistic than the series, "Desperate Housewives." It should be compared to Edith Wharton's, "The Age of Innocence." Ms. Wharton rallied against the strict Victorian rules of behavior and morals but Ms. Kern's novel shows what happens to people when those rules break down as they have in our modern world.

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