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    Changing Lanes: A Novel

    Written by Kathleen Long

    Narrated by Tanya Eby

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    About this audiobook

    Abby Halladay has the perfect life. Or, rather, she will…as long as everything goes exactly according to plan. Abby never leaves anything to chance - not her job as a syndicated columnist, not her engagement to her fiancé, Fred, and certainly not her impending wedding in Paris (New Jersey, that is).

    Unfortunately for Abby, even the best-laid plans often go awry - like when Fred runs away to Paris (France, that is), her column is canned, and her dream home is diagnosed with termites. Forced to move back in with her parents and drive her dad's cab, Abby's perfect life has now officially become the perfect disaster.

    Then a funny thing happens. Slowly but surely, Abby begins letting go of her dreams of perfection. As she does, the messy, imperfect life she thought she never wanted starts to feel exactly like the one she needs.

    Poignant and heartfelt, Changing Lanes celebrates the unexpected joys of everyday life - and the enduring promise of second chances.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBrilliance Audio
    Release dateMay 14, 2013
    ISBN9781469294872
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    Changing Lanes: A Novel
    Author

    Kathleen Long

    After a career spent spinning words for clients ranging from corporate CEOs to talking fruits and vegetables, Kathleen now enjoys spinning a world of fictional characters, places and plots. A RIO and Gayle Wilson Award of Excellence winner and National Readers Choice, Booksellers Best and Holt Medallion nominee, she divides her time between suburban Philadelphia and the New Jersey seashore. Please visit her at www.kathleenlong.com, or drop her a line at P.O. Box 3864, Cherry Hill, NJ 08034.

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    • 5/5
      What a great book! Loved the changes the main character chose to make. Its what happens when a planner/control freak meets life. Romance and life lessons bundled into one book.
    • 3/5
      This was my first book by Kathleen Long and look forward to reading more of her work. When I first began listening to the audio version it was a little distracting with the noises so switched to the e-book which was smoother. (Wished she had a little more exciting setting than Paris, NJ, as if the setting had been in say a southern historic or coastal town it may have been a bit more inviting).

      The book is about 30 yr. old Abbey who has lost her job as an advice columnist, and the day before she is to move into her charming Victorian home she finds out is has extensive termite damage, and guy she was set to marry decides he is going to Paris, France.

      In the meantime, her parents and relatives are there to support her), and she runs into Mick O’Malley, her childhood best friend and neighbor (who lost his wife a few years ago to drunk driving) and his father who gave them all a bad name. There are other events which led to the night of their senior year when Mick left town.

      Abbey’s dad suggests she drive her dad’s cab Bessie to figure out how to pay a mortgage and rethink her life. She connects with some girlfriends in town and realizes how things begin changing when she does not put so much pressure on herself to be a perfectionist. She begins to find happiness without Fred and begins to spend more time with Mick realizing she is not the only one with issues.

      An insightful and beautiful story about love, unexpected joys, second chances, personal growth and handling the card you are dealt. Changing Lanes was not so much a chick-lit and a romance – more about growing and getting to know yourself.