Everything Nice
A Novel
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Publisher Description
In a smart, sexy, wickedly funny new novel, the acclaimed author of Right Before Your Eyes introduces an unforgettable and irresistibly real heroine: Michaela“Mike” Edwards, a woman who is forced to reinvent herself— and discovers that the biggest risk is not taking one at all….
Fiercely independent and seriously lacking in social graces, Mike Edwards doesn’t do sugar and spice. Instead she writes great copy and stays above the fray—until mishandled office politics get her unexpectedly fired. Suddenly the young ad hotshot finds herself doing the unimaginable: moving back in with her widowed father, hiding from her lecherous mentor, rethinking her entire career—and trying to unravel complex feelings for her best guy pal, an Aussie journalist named Gunther.
For Mike, a few wrenching twists of fate are leading to a job she never expected: teaching “life skills” to seventh-grade girls. But sometimes the best makeovers are the ones you never see coming. Because with a classroom full of kids who need her, a best friend who’s fast becoming something more, and a family she’s only just discovering, Mike has a few surprises in store…and she’s about to discover that going places in life doesn’t have to mean going it on your own.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Here's a chick lit heroine with beauty and brains and a bad-ass attitude that lands her in trouble. Out-of-work, out-of-love and out-of-luck, take-no-prisoners ad copywriter Michaela "Mike" Edwards faces off with a gaggle of giggly 12-year-olds in a "life skills" class. In a hilarious sendup of new-fashioned home ec, Mike rewrites the curriculum to accommodate information the charter school girls can actually use, and discovers, to her surprise, "that she cared." Her reinvention as daughter to her widower father Gerry (who raised her solo) and stepdaughter-to-be of his fianc e, Deja, is a lot rockier but no less rollicking. Along the way, ex-boyfriend Jay (whose standup comedy brutally strips away the artifice of their relationship) and Aussie journalist best-pal Gunther help attune Mike to what she's searching for. Shanman's second novel (after Right Before Your Eyes) is a gem of razor-sharp wit and impeccable timing, and though things sag in the blended extended family passages, this is a great anytime read that comes just in time for summer vacation.
Customer Reviews
Everything Nice
Clever, gorgeous and brilliant copy editor Michaela 'Mike' Edwards has it all...except the Life Skills tools she needs at work, in friendships, in relationships, love and with her father. She has a great and successful career until it all comes crashing down on her and this smart woman hasn't a clue how to recover. Ellen Shanman has written a sensitive, funny and loving piece of literary fiction that will make you want to strangle Mike into reality while crying with her.