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Mira, Dec 2003, 6.50, 448 pp.
ISBN: 1551666715
In their early fifties, the four women have met for lunch once a month since they left their school days behind. Maggie stuns her friends when she announces that she is pregnant through artificial insemination from semen donated by her lover Oliver. Nicki is shockingly belligerent over the news. Perhaps that is caused by her terrible relationship with her adult stepdaughter Laura who just returned to the roost and her belief that her spouse Kit favors his daughter over their son Joey. Alice thinks her husband since high school Stuart is having an affair, but is happy yet worried about Maggie. Feeling left out, Stella takes in a pregnant teen, but cannot balance between her General Officer personality giving orders and just providing a helping hand, a trait that her husband Richard understands all too well.
With all four pals in mid life crisis, their relationships that have survived marriage and children seem in jeopardy. Especially adding tension is a letter campaign that calls Maggie a “baby thief” and threatens to hurt her and her unborn. Relationships are changing, but not necessarily for the good.
Though the angst is at the highest levels of the Richter scale, fans of relationship dramas will take pleasure from NOW OR NEVER. The story line is excellent when the four women go introspective and when they wear the shoes of others in their sphere. When the tale spins a bit of intrigue that centers on the threat to Maggie and her child, the increased suspense takes away from the prime theme of middle age friends struggling with what they want out of life.
Harriet Klausner
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Harriet Klausner, Resident Scholar
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Ratings are on a 1-10 scale (Low to High)
Plot
Tone of book?
- thoughtful
Time/era of story
- present (2000-2010)
Internal struggle/realization?
Yes
Struggle over
- midlife crisis
Pregnancy/Child rearing
Yes
Major part of story:
- general child raising
Main Character
Gender
- Female
Profession/status:
- homemaker
Age:
- 40's-50's
Ethnicity/Nationality
- British
How sensitive is this character?
- sensitive to others' feelings
Sense of humor
- Mostly serious with occasional humor
Intelligence
- Very much smarter than other characters
Physique
- very athletic
Main Adversary
Identity:
- none
Setting
Europe
Yes
European country:
- England/UK
Style
Person
- mostly 3rd
Accounts of torture and death?
- no torture/death
Unusual Style:
- a lot of play on words
- a lot of stream of consciousness
- No single main character?
Amount of dialog
- significantly more dialog than descript
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