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    The Office of Desire: A Novel
    The Office of Desire: A Novel
    The Office of Desire: A Novel
    Audiobook9 hours

    The Office of Desire: A Novel

    Written by Martha Moody

    Narrated by Renee Raudman and Todd McLaren

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    About this audiobook

    From the author of the runaway bestselling novel Best Friends comes a smart, touching novel about the intimate yet fragile relationships among five very different people, thrown together in a small medical office, and how each life affects the others.

    Alicia, Brice, and Caroline are the ABCs-three close friends who have been brought together while working at the cozy medical practice of Drs. Markowitz and Strub in Midburg, Ohio. But when Alicia and Dr. Strub begin an affair, a dramatic chain of events ensues that gradually but drastically alters the office environment-ultimately requiring all five coworkers to redefine their relationships to one another. As Dr. Strub's romantic life is thrown into turmoil, Dr. Markowitz is faced with the dire illness of his own wife and the secret life she has kept from him. Nurse Alicia withdraws to focus on her prodigy son; receptionist Caroline enters into a strange romance she previously would have dismissed; and office manager Brice, his once-ordered world disintegrating, is set dangerously adrift. Finally, a questionable business venture that evolves into financial scandal precipitates a monstrous tragedy that threatens to destroy everyone involved. Warm, moving, and witty, The Office of Desire offers an insightful look at human nature that will appeal to those who loved Moody's previous novel and anyone else who has worked in an office.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTantor Media, Inc
    Release dateAug 27, 2007
    ISBN9781400175123
    The Office of Desire: A Novel
    Author

    Martha Moody

    Manuel Antonio Garreton, one of Latin America's foremost political sociologists, is professor of sociology at the University of Chile. He is author and editor of more than three dozen books.

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    • 2/5
      This book wasn't bad, but it wasn't my style. The story seemed to jump around too much for me to stay completely interested. There were some truly sad and touching moments and some good messages in it that I liked, I just would have liked if the story flowed a bit better. I did really like the ending and the possibility of something happening between two of the characters in the future.
    • 4/5
      A very different read for me. Caroline is the office receptionist in a two doctor office. Things go really well, between Caroline, the nurse Alisha and the office mangager/bookkeeper Brice. But then Alisha marries one of the doctors and things go down hill. Especially when the doctor and alisha get involved in a christian church.