I was quite disappointed with CR's jump into fiction. I suppose after "What Remains" I had irrationally high expectations and this just didn't do it for me. I hate to say it but so much of this seemed already done before (so many Sex and the City take-offs! Shudder). It was a bit pretentious at t...
This novel is what I consider a "beach read" - light, well written, funny. Will it win any awards? Probably not but I doubt that was the author's intention. Candace Bushnell describes the central character, Claire, as "a modern day Holly Golightly." I couldn't agree more. There is sex but it...
I found this novel extremely disappointing. I am a huge fan of "What Remains" and couldn't wait to start reading Widow's Guide, unfortunately it was a big let down. Radziwill is not a bad writer, in fact I still think she's a great one, but this is a bad book. Boring storyline, it feels like it's...
Carole Radziwill is Bravo TV bait, but only on paper: She’s a 40-something woman with a title, relatively few facial creases, a famous last name and has a limb-by-marriage on the Kennedy family tree. But the new addition to Season 5 of “The Real Housewives of New York” has little in common with h...
Time had moved uncertainly since Claire’s second encounter with Jack Huxley and she had spent it in a jumble of long, wandering walks, drinking wet cappuccinos, and carelessly buying sidewalk trinkets she had no use for. She continued to work on the manuscript—dabbled was a better word. But the a...