Experience the sultry Southern atmosphere of Atlanta and the magic of the Carolina Lowcountry in this funny and poignant tale of one audacious woman’s quest to find the love she deserves, from New York Times bestselling author Dorothea Benton Frank.
Leslie Anne Greene Carter is The Last Original Wife among her husband Wesley’s wildly successful Atlanta social set. His cronies have all traded in … cronies have all traded in the mothers of their children they promised to love and cherish — ’til death did them part — for tanned and toned young Barbie brides.
If losing the social life and close friends she adored wasn’t painful enough, a series of setbacks shake Les’s world and push her to the edge. She’s had enough of playing the good wife to a husband who thinks he’s doing her a favor by keeping her around. She’s not going to waste another minute on people she doesn’t care to know. Now, she’s going to take some time for herself — in the familiar comforts and stunning beauty of Charleston, her beloved hometown. In her brother’s stately historic home, she’s going to reclaim the carefree girl who spent lazy summers sharing steamy kisses with her first love on Sullivans Island. Along Charleston’s live oak- and palmetto-lined cobblestone streets, under the Lowcountry’s dazzling blue sky, Les will indulge herself with icy cocktails, warm laughter, divine temptation and bittersweet memories. Daring to listen to her inner voice, she will realize what she wants… and find the life of which she’s always dreamed.
Told in the alternating voices of Les and Wes, The Last Original Wife is classic Dorothea Benton Frank: an intoxicating tale of family, friendship, self-discovery, and love, that is as salty as a Lowcountry breeze and as invigorating as a dip in Carolina waters on a sizzling summer day.
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Excellent.
Love everything she writes!!
Who Doesn’t love DBF? She Never disappoints.
She draws wonderful word pictures of places she loves & then places you there with her characters……..this is one of her best ……and hers are All good !
Leslie Carter is fed up with her life, her kids and her husband of almost 30 years. After a life-changing incident, she starts realizing that she needs a change and an incident at her family’s country club cinches it for her.
The book switches from Leslie’s perspective to her husband, Wesley’s, as they provide the background to the split and the …
Fun to read. Lots of fun characters and unexpected twists.
Great author for stories about the low country.
Loved the book
Good chick lit but not the best I’ve read by this author.
A very entertaining author touches on a subject so many readers know all too well, that of divorce and the problems with continued friendships.
I really enjoyed this book, and it kept me hooked until the very end. I marked that it’s “realistic,” and that’s true up to right before the end. The husband is written as a classic narcissist, however what happens at the end goes against the reality of narcissists. Readers who aren’t familiar with narcissists will likely love the entire book. Had …
Leslie Carter is the last “original” wife among her husband’s group of friends. On vacation in Edinburgh, she falls down a manhole, is knocked unconscious and breaks her arm. Her husband – walking a few paces ahead with friends – doesn’t notice until he’s back at the hotel. When she wakes up from surgery, it’s to the face of an almost-stranger …
Wow, this book made me think. As a middle aged female reader, I really connected to the middle aged female characters in this book. They could have been my wine club friends, truly. I love how Frank portrays strong women that just pick up the pieces and move forward when faced with adversity! When a woman puts her husband and family first …
Kept me guessing until the end. Women can identify with it.