Random House Trade
Where the Grass Is Green and the Girls Are Pretty
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - GOOD MORNING AMERICA BUZZ PICK - From the bestselling author of The Devil Wears Prada and When Life Gives You Lululemons comes a highly entertaining, sharply observed novel about sisters, their perfect lives . . . and their perfect lies.
"Goes down like an ice-cold guilty pleasure on a hot beach-reading day."--USA Today
A seat at the anchor desk of the most-watched morning show. Recognized by millions across the country, thanks in part to her flawless blond highlights and Botox-smoothed skin. An adoring husband and a Princeton-bound daughter. Peyton is that woman. She has it all.
Until . . .
Skye, her sister, is a stay-at-home mom living in a glitzy suburb of New York. She has degrees from all the right schools and can helicopter-parent with the best of them. But Skye is different from the rest. She's looking for something real and dreams of a life beyond the PTA and pickup.
Until . . .
Max, Peyton's bright and quirky seventeen-year-old daughter, is poised to kiss her fancy private school goodbye and head off to pursue her dreams in film. She's waited her entire life for this opportunity.
Until . . .
One little lie. That's all it takes. For the illusions to crack. For resentments to surface. Suddenly the grass doesn't look so green. And they're left wondering: will they have what it takes to survive the truth?
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Book Details
ISBN:
9781984855589
EAN:
9781984855589
Binding:
Paperback
Pages:
384
Authors:
Lauren Weisberger
Publisher:
Random House Trade
Published Date: 2022-07-06
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I’m not sure what I just read. That ending! So bad. I feel like the author even hated the book and just said: I’m over it here’s an ending and dusts hands leaves the room..The only characters worth any thought were Max and Oliver. The others were so shallow and deformed. I’m pretty sure I had the ending pegged after the first couple of chapters. Maybe it would have been better if the author didn’t try to wrap it all up in nicey-nice ending Not to mention it was an excercise in let’s take every buzz wordy thing from 2019/2020 and made it into a book. I don’t even understand why I read it much less why someone wrote it.
Really enjoyed escaping to Greenwich.
I was hoping to be as good as Devil were Prada but it is not!
The author’s attempt to illustrate social and cultural contrasts felt contrived and an overreach, the characters, shallow, the story line a repetitive take off on a college admissions scandal in recent years. Immature writing, at best.
I binged the second half of this book wondering when the real story was going to come out and I was not disappointed! I’d love to know what happens with Max, and with Skye!
