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Young Wives
Young Wives
Author: Olivia Goldsmith
ISBN-13: 9780006510536
ISBN-10: 0006510531
Publication Date: 11/20/2000
Pages: 608
Rating:
  • Currently 3.8/5 Stars.
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3.8 stars, based on 5 ratings
Publisher: Harpercollins Pub Ltd
Book Type: Paperback
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FabN46 avatar reviewed Young Wives on + 103 more book reviews
Helpful Score: 2
If you read and liked "First Wives Club" then you'll like this one too! Their stories are heartbreaking, but how they band together and take their lives back will have you cheering for them in the end.

Really liked this one!
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Helpful Score: 1
I love Olivia Goldsmith. I also love stories of women growing up together and lasting friendships. Very similar to First Wives Club.
Booknose avatar reviewed Young Wives on + 63 more book reviews
Helpful Score: 1
Goldsmith was in my eyes one of the founding mothers of chick lit with her cool insights into womens lives in the 20th century plus she always has that edge of revenge in her books where her characters get the men who did them back and good!
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Helpful Score: 1
I could not put this book down! After reading this book I found out that what they say about a woman scorned is true. This book is a wonderful tale of the friendship of 3 young married women, the men that did them wrong, and the revenge (a dish best served cold LOL) they took against them.
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Do not remember this one as I just came across it again, but it is a women's story of friendship and growth together through adversity done in Goldsmith's wit and style
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A typical New Yorker, half-Jewish, half-Italian, Angela is a lawyer married to Reid, a handsome old-money WASP. Michelle adores her childhood sweetheart husband, Frank, and the dreamhouse he's provided for her and their two beautiful children. Jada is an African-American working mom trying to maintain a happy home despite her husband Clinton's failing business.

But then, like a bad soufflé, the lives of Angela, Michelle, and Jada collapse as they each discover the truth about their dirty, rotten mates. Uniting for solace and support, they draw on one another's friendship to heal their wounds. Bowed but not beaten, though, this smart, audacious trio will concoct a brilliant recipe to take back what's theirs and serve justice on their duplicitous men -- and transform them from victims to victors!
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I am reading this book for the thrid time now, I love it. Easy read, and definately one of those you don't want to put down.
girlofthehollow avatar reviewed Young Wives on + 23 more book reviews
Love everything this young author wrote. Tragic that her life was cut short so unnecesarily. I liked this better than "First Wives Club"
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Three young wives discover what they should have known all along: that their husbands are rotten.
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Meet the young wives---Angela, Michelle, and Jada, thirty-something women who appear to have lives as delicious as dessert...A typical New Yorker, half-Jewish, half-Itaalian, Angela is a lawyer married to Reid, a handsome old-money WASP. Michelle adores her childhood sweetheart husband, Frank, and the dreamhouse he's provded for her and their two beautiful children. Jada is an African-American wroking mom trying to maintain a happy home despite her husband Clinton's failing business. But then, like a bad souffle, the lives of Angela, Michelle, and Jada collapse as they each discover the truth about their dirty, rotten mates.
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Olivia Goldsmith's usual hijinx. A fun read.
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Three young wives, Angela, Michelle, and Jada, discover the truth about their dirty, rotten mates. They draw on one another's friendship to heal their wounds. They decide to take back what's theirs and serve justice on their future exhusbands.

I loved this book. It was diff. from the norm.
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Very Enjoyable
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Entertaining. sorta knew the ending, but still a good summer read.
tchrmsb avatar reviewed Young Wives on + 173 more book reviews
Goldsmith writes about 3 thirty-something women whose lives with their husbands take unanticipated turns. A victims to victors transformation occurs through their creative plan of justice.
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got a little long - but a good read overall
cranbery avatar reviewed Young Wives on + 530 more book reviews
Great fast read.....
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Once I recieved this book i remembered that i had attempted to read to read it before and just did not love it...never finished it








i had read it before... not my favorite... never actually finished it... o well.
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My copy has a different cover. I read this a long time ago, and don't quite remember it.