The First Husband, (Paperback)

from BooksForTheLiving

"Sometimes you don't know it. What you have been waiting your whole life for. You don't know it until it is happening."-----Really enjoyed this one! It's fairly short at only 244 pages. It's the first novel I've read by Laura Dave and I will definitely be reading more from her.-----"It was right ...

from RebeccaGraf

Looking for a book that a woman could enjoy while relating to? Want something more than fairy tales? You need to check out Laura Dave's The First Husband. It is the story of a young woman who sees life going well despite the many bumps and bruises she has received in life. That is, it is going we...

from Florinda

Laura Dave's third novel, THE FIRST HUSBAND, reflects--to some extent--the attempts of her first-person narrator, travel columnist Annabelle "Annie" Adams, to explain how she ended up married to a chef she met in a bar just days after her live-in boyfriend of over five years told her, on the advi...

from phyllis.shepherd

Very quick read -- chick lit of a higher order than most. The plot concerns a woman who is dumped by a man she loves. She meets a new man for whom she thinks she has even deeper feelings, but encounters many obstacles and problems before she makes a decision about what her life should be. The sit...

from Carolee888

I loved The First Husband by Laura Dave. It portrayed marriages so realistically and yet with humor, quirkiness and love. Annie Adams feels content with her job, her wonderful dog and her marriage until her husband drops a bomb. He is moving out. She really doesn't know how to cope with the chang...