Keep your mouth shut and wear beige

Format:

Book (large print)

Title:

Keep your mouth shut and wear beige

Author:

Seidel, Kathleen Gilles.

ISBN:

9781602852648

Publication Information:

Physical Description:

346 pages ; 22 cm

Summary:

Darcy Van Aiken is doing just fine. She's an ICU nurse with an amicable divorce from her ex husband, Mike, two great kids, and a prescription for Ritalin. Then her older son, Jeremy, gets engaged to Cami Zander Brown, the daughter of a wealthy New York family, and her world is suddenly turned upside down. The source of her trouble is not Rose Zander Brown, Cami's elegant and accomplished mother. Nor is it Guy Zander Brown, Cami's charismatic and wildly succcessful literary agent father. Instead lurking in the shadows of Mike's new life is the beautifully dressed Claudia, a self described managed perfectionist. The plans for the Van Aiken Zander Brown wedding are growing more fabulous by the day, and Claudia has usurped Darcy's role in an effort to entrench herself in Mike's life and to boos her reputation with the Hamptons crowd. It's a battle of wills and wits, and what Darcy learns about herself and about family and friendship makes for a delicious, hilarious, touching read.

Subject(s):

Divorced mothers -- Fiction.

Weddings -- Planning -- Fiction.

Parents-in-law -- Fiction.

Large type books.

Genre:

Large type books.

Fiction.

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Darcy Van Aiken is doing just fine. She's an ICU nurse with an "amicable" divorce from her ex-husband, Mike, two great kids, and a prescription for Ritalin. Then her older son, Jeremy, gets engaged to Cami Zander-Brown, the daughter of a wealthy New York family, and her world is suddenly turned upside down. The source of her trouble is not Rose Zander-Brown, Cami's elegant and accomplished mother. Nor is it Guy Zander-Brown, Cami's charismatic and wildly successful literary agent father. Instead, lurking in the shadows of Mike's new life is the beautifully dressed Claudia, a self-described "managed perfectionist."The plans for the Van Aiken/Vander-Brown wedding are growing more fabulous by the day, and Claudia has usurped Darcy's role in an effort to entrench herself in Mike's life - and to boost her reputation with the Hamptons crowd.It's a battle of wills and wits, and what Darcy learns about herself - and about family and friendship - makes for a delicious, hilarious, touching read.

Reviews (1)

Publisher's Weekly Review

Being the mother of the groom isn't quite a snap for divorced nurse Darcy Van Aiken in this gently humorous look at how an upcoming wedding upsets the delicate balance of family relationships. Darcy, a busy mother of three, gets along with ex-husband Mike, likes her oldest son Jeremy's bride-to-be and discovers an unexpected affinity for the bride's wealthy but down-to-earth mother. There's just one flaw in the ointment: Mike's new girlfriend, clothing designer Claudia Postlewaite, is determined use the wedding as a means to boost her professional and social standing. From the moment Claudia begins her campaign and cold-shoulders Darcy, there's trouble afoot, but instead of letting the book turn into a comic tug-of-war, Seidel (A Most Uncommon Degree of Popularity) reveals the traps people--and especially parents--set for themselves in their marriages and lives. The good (Darcy) vs. evil (Claudia) battle here is light, digestible and full of chuckle-inducing moments. (May) Copyright 2008 Reed Business Information.