Better Off Without Him

Mona Berman has it all-a twenty-year marriage, a successful career as a romance novelist, and three teenage daughters. But when her husband, Brian, leaves her for someone younger, thinner, blonde, andFrench, she has to step back and take a good, long look at her life.

First, her career. She can't continue to write about “Happily Ever After,” so she changes the heroine of her new book from a hot young thing to a forty-something woman who manages to find happinesswithouta man. Her agent isn't ...