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A deliciously smart and funny debut novel about loss, libido...and real love. Ten years ago, Claire Byrne, now thirty-two, put her biggest career dreams and deepest personal wishes on keep when she became the better half of Charlie Byrne, the famous sexologist and man about town. Identical parts Alfred Kinsey and Warren Beatty, Charlie is captivating yet pompous, supportive yet unfaithful, a firm believer that making love and love can't coexist. When Charlie is wiped out one day, within an absurd sidewalk collision with a falling sculpture (a Giacometti, believe it or not!), his death converts Claire's world upside down. She misses Charlie. She needs to reinvent herself. As unseemly as it could be to say that it, she longs to lose her "widow's virginity." And she wishes love. During the period of a year, Claire eats inadequate and wines too much. She recognizes first- and second-opinion shrinks, the Town griot, a psychic, and a "botanomanist." She dates a billionaire, a journalist, a hockey player, and even Jack Huxley - the celeb. And, as Claire progresses from Charlie and looks for herself, she involves realize she's been given a second chance to reside the meaningful and ardent life that approved her by once before. Listeners of Carole Radziwill's debut memoir, the lauded and NY Times bestselling What Remains, know well that she's a particular skill for writing about friendship, reduction, and love. And listeners of The Widow's Guide to Love-making and Seeing will quickly realize that those gift items extend delightfully and tenderly to the literary screwball funny. In spinning Claire's history, Radziwill limns a world where glamorous movie stars fall for brainy working females and where true friends must be leaned on until real love arrives, and she reports again with a novel that is as loving as it is funny and wise.
