L'écriture de Lolly Winston explore les complexités des relations humaines et la quête du bonheur dans la vie quotidienne. Son style se caractérise par un esprit vif et des observations perspicaces de la nature humaine. À travers ses personnages, elle aborde des thèmes tels que l'amour, la perte et la recherche de l'épanouissement personnel.
A 36 ans, Sophie vient juste de perdre son mari. Elle puise son réconfort dans les pâtisseries et les antidépresseurs au point d'en devenir obèse et d'aller travailler en pyjama. Elle finit par perdre emploi et logement et décide alors de chercher son salut dans une toute nouvelle vie. Celle-ci semble venir sous les traits d'une jeune adolescente rebelle et pyromane
The New York Times bestseller about how marriage, love, and how sometimes falling in love with the wrong person at the wrong time can be the right thing. Elinor Mackey has lived her life in perfect order: college, law school, marriage, successful corporate career. But when she discovers that she and her podiatrist husband, Ted, can't have children, Elinor withdraws into her own world of heartbreak and anger. While Elinor falls in love with the oak tree in their front yard, sleeping under it at night, Ted begins an affair with Gina, the nutritionist at their gym. Ted, who may be the only one who can help Gina and her son, suddenly finds himself in love with two women at the same time. In the tradition of Anne Tyler, John Cheever, and Tom Perrotta, Winston's second novel looks beyond the manicured surface of suburbia to a world of loss, longing, lust, and betrayal.
Grieving over the death of her husband from cancer, thirty-six-year-old Sophie Stanton finds her personal and professional world in a shambles and, in an attempt to reinvent her life, moves to Ashland, Oregon, where she encounters a troubled thirteen-year-old girl, a job as the Salad Girl at the local restaurant, and a cute actor as she struggles to recover. A first novel. 150,000 first printing.
V době, kdy se od žen očekává, že budou maximálně úspěšné, si šestatřicetiletá Sophie Stantonová zoufale přeje být ukázkovou vdovou – půvabnou a vyrovnanou vdovou ve stylu Jackie Kennedyové. Bohužel se jí podobá jen velmi vzdáleně. Ke snídani pořádá kartony zmrzliny, kolabuje v supermarketech, vrazí do práce v županu a růžových pantoflích se zajíčkem… Brzy nebude jen bez manžela, ale taky bez práce, střechy nad hlavou a štíhlého pasu. V zoufalé snaze opět ovládnout svůj život, se Sophie stěhuje do Ashlandu v Oregonu. Ale ani tam to není jednoduché…