On the eve of her thirty-seventh birthday, Fran Clark finds herself in a role she would never have envisioned: that of a surprisingly desperate housewife. As Fran halfheartedly attempts to relaunch her once-vibrant career as a voiceover artist and obsesses over keeping up with the ruthless mothers' scene at her children's school, she begins to realize that her thirty-seventh year isn't going to resemble the midlife bliss she had imagined. Instead,...

As the novel opens, Francesca's banker husband is supposedly off to a conference in Brussels. But, when she drops him off at the airport, he forgets his cell phone. Considerate wife that she is, Francesca parks the car, and hurries to catch him before his plane leaves. She catches him all right, just as he's passionately kissing one of his female colleagues like there's no tomorrow. But, there is a tomorrow, and what happens in the days to follow...

Irish novelist Kennedy Marr is a first rate bad boy. When he is not earning a fortune as one of Hollywood's most sought after script writers, he is drinking, insulting and philandering his way through LA, 'successfully debunking the myth that men are unable to multitask'. He is loved by many women, but loathed by even more including ex-wives on both sides of the pond.

At forty, Hank has decided he is through with baseball, a routine pop-up fell on his head, and he got the message. The trouble is baseball is the one thing that has given any meaning to his life. This is the painfully funny story of a man who decides to get a life, but is not sure how. It is about fathers and sons, heroes and whiners, the wheel of fortune (and Vanna White), baseball and the decline of Western civilization and why Nellie Fox always...

"Divorced, disconnected from his son and dissatisfied with his love life, Wallace Avery ... decides to make a radical change. He walks away from his old life, forges a new identity and hits the road as Arthur Newman to start over. But his road trip is derailed by the entrance of mysterious Michaela "Mike" Fitzgerald ... whom Arthur discovers passed out poolside at a motel. Mike sees through Arthur's identity scam, and soon enough Arthur uncovers hers"--Container....

Dash leaves her husband Andrew, because of a dog, also her mothers death, their daughter going off to college, and her job. Andrew comfortable with his life doesn't understand what's wrong with his wife.

Alex is trying to deal with a midlife crisis, while feeling caught in the middle of his familial obligations. While successful, Alex sometimes feels as if he's under the shadow of his father, Mitchell, a successful attorney. Mitchell has recently survived a stroke, and Alex and Mitchell want to mend their relationship while there's still time.

At forty, Mary South had a beautiful home, good friends, and a successful career in book publishing. But she couldn't help feeling that she was missing something intangible but essential. So she decided to go looking for it . . . at sea. Six months later she had quit her job, sold the house, and was living aboard a forty-foot, thirty-ton steel trawler she rechristened Bossanova. Despite her total lack of experience, South set out on her maiden

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Fiftysomething and still clueless Leo Spivak is drifting through life without a compass. Among his problems are his rebelling teenage daughter, a gravely ill father, a work protege after his job, and his wife is loing her patience and his own judgment are sinking fast. It's going to take a bizarre twist of fate and some twisted wisdom from a "freelance rabbi" to help Leo navigate the murky waters of middle age and turn his midlife crisis into a midlife...

Finn is an English teacher going through a mid-life crisis. Having just had a recent tragedy in his life, he takes up selling encyclopedias to the town as he looks for meaning in life.