Call Waiting
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4.3 • 13 Ratings
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- $7.99
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- $7.99
Publisher Description
Of course Meg was a success: she planned, she set goals, she made lists. Ally never made lists.
Ally Tasker is trapped in a dead-end teaching job and a relationship that's going nowhere. Her college friend Meg has a fabulous job in advertising, a doting husband and a gorgeous baby boy. Why did Ally's life seem to be permanently on hold?
When her grandfather and sole relative dies, Ally has to return to the Southern Highlands. As she sets to restoring the rundown home of her childhood, the past unravels, and Ally realises the choice to be happy has been in her hands all along.
Meanwhile Meg's life is not as idyllic as Ally imagines. She longs to inject more passion and spontaneity into her life, but at what cost to her career, and more importantly, to the people she loves most in the world?
Sometimes you have to risk all you have to realise what is worth saving.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Ally Tasker and Meg Lynch, best friends since art school, are searching for "happily ever afters" but turning up complications instead in Australian novelist Blacklock's bright American debut. Blacklock develops her likable characters in some depth while making wry observations on the difficulties inherent in any married or "singlet" life. Ally, wary of relationships and stubbornly independent, has just ended a long affair with Bryce, her driven but dull real estate agent boyfriend ("Success comes in cans, not can'ts!"). About to turn 35 ("surely the most desolate of all ages"), Ally begins to think she might be happier if her life looked more like ad executive Meg's-with a stable marriage, career and child. Meg, on the other hand, envies Ally's freedom, especially after Ally leaves Sydney for the rugged Southern Highlands to prepare her grandfather's estate for sale. Meg dabbles in infidelity with a hot young model and gets more excitement than she bargained for when her husband moves out. Ally meets Matt, a carpenter and contractor with a teenage daughter. He's handsome and charming, but he also has the nerve to be helpful and concerned when Ally just wants to be left alone. Lively, always believable dialogue and vivid descriptions of Sydney and the surrounding countryside give the pleasantly predictable plot some added oomph.
