Stealing Home (Sweet Magnolias, Book 1) | 
|  | | | Title: | Stealing Home (Sweet Magnolias, Book 1) | | Author: | Sherryl Woods | | Publisher: | Mira | | Type: | Book / Mass Market Paperback | | Publication Date: | 01 February, 2007 | | ISBN / ISBN-13: | 0778323633 / 9780778323631 | | List Price: | $6.99 | | Amazon Price: | $6.99 | |
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Maddie Townsend might live in a town called Serenity, but there's been nothing calm or peaceful about her life since her marriage broke up. This stay-at-home mom has no job skills, an out-of-control sixteen-year-old son, a talkative fourteen-year-old who's suddenly gone silent, a six-year-old daughter whose heart is broken, an ex-husband whose younger girlfriend is expecting their baby and two best friends who think she's somehow qualified to help them open a fitness spa for women. But if Maddie is a tad on edge with all that on her plate, it's nothing compared to the chaos that ensues when she discovers that her son's baseball coach has feelings for her and the whole town disapproves. Maddie's faced a lot of challenges lately with strength and resolve, but Cal Maddox may turn out to be more than she can handle. Then again, he could just be the one man in all of South Carolina who can help her find serenity.
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• Walking Through Divorce And New Life Birthed 25 March, 2008
If you have ever walked through divorce or have someone walking through divorce (as I do my oldest daughter), Stealing Home, will help you to experience the pains and problems that a person feels. Maddie is not prepared for her doctor husband to tell her he is leaving her and her three children because he has gotten his nurse pregnant. Maddie is torn because she thought her marriage was going fine and had no clues there was anything wrong. Bill, the doctor husband, reaps the chaos he has sown upon his family when the nurse realizes he does not love her and is still in love with his ex-wife or so she thinks.
But by then Maddie has moved on and regained her self-confidence. She has friends who stand by here through all the struggles she faces. She comes out a much stronger and better person.
Cal Maddox, coach of the baseball team, coaches Maddie's oldest son. When Ty is going through a hard time and about gives up the joy he loves in baseball it is the coach who helps him out of the slump.
Cal takes it slow getting to know Maddie.
But living in a small town (as I do) gossip is the biggest the problem. People stick their noses in where not needed and gossip and jealousy rage until the coach almost loses his job. But as in any small town, the outcome of a board meeting assures Cal that he still has his position as he declares his love for Maddie.
There is so much I could relate to living in a rural community and my daughter walking through divorce although my daughter relocated.
Sherryl Woods has a way of drawing you into all the feelings that people endure as they go through a divorce and try to rebuild their lives. This book is hard to put down.
- Reviewed by customer ID: A3SBFMNEO7P1M
• Great Author 21 September, 2008
Have read several of her other books and was once again happy with her. Would love to know what happens next.
- Reviewed by customer ID: AHMFYXFZ8LEHN
• Wonderful Book, Wonderful Writing... 08 September, 2007
when I picked up this book from the library of the recommendation of a friend, I had no idea I would like it so much. The witing is wonderful...it seems to give a very realistic picture of the turmoil that is caused among children of divorced families, and the adjustments they need to make. Most of all,the book didnt try to play nice...it potrays very clearly the insensitivity of the spouses who cause the divorce, in terms of expectations regarding the children ..and how they are expected to behave towards their n ew loves. The best part comes initially in the book when Maddie wants to "curse Dr. Phil" and all those therapists who dole out inane advise about the "best interests of the child". The writing is very fluid and humorous as well. I cant wait to read her other books.
- Reviewed by customer ID: A3VGDGN2WIQHX0
• Stealing Home By Sherryl Woods 01 September, 2008
This was a fabulouse read. A great beach or by the pool book. It keeps you engaged till the end. I can't wait to read the other two in the series! I found another new writer to add to my favorite's list!
- Reviewed by customer ID: A3QCA0JSMJBENU
• A Cozy Read.... 08 July, 2007
I did like this book - but it would have felt much fresher if I hadn't read it right after reading Jennifer Crusie's TELL ME LIES, which tells a similar story of a cheating husband and a wife who finds a new flame. The Crusie book has more levels, plus a convoluted mystery, although it does not get into the head of the cheating husband as Woods does. I really liked the dialogue, especially for the teen-age and younger kids; it rang true. The small town atmosphere was also well-rendered, with just enough love of gossip and willingness to believe the worst to make it a less than idyllic place to live. The overall tone and the ending were cozy, even if several elements were rather sad. But, then again, divorce is sad no matter how happily some people end up.
- Reviewed by customer ID: A7KQB3WGH6HT7
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