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The secret ingredient / Jane Heller.

Title
The secret ingredient / Jane Heller.
Author
Heller, Jane.
Publication
New York : St. Martin's Press, 2003, c2002.

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x, 340 p.; 18 cm.
Summary
Meet Elizabeth Baskin, who falls in love, gets married, and discovers six years into her union that the magic is gone-or, rather, fading. Her husband Roger has grown a paunch, lost interest in sex, and seems allergic to conversation. What's a disgruntled wife to do? After taking her sister's advice, and consulting with a celebrity doctor, whose practice is a bit unconventional, Elizabeth is convinced that she's found the secret ingredient to saving her marriage. All she has to do is slip the prescribed packet of miracle herbs into Roger's orange juice and then-presto! She'll have him back the way he was before he started coming home from work and falling asleep in front of the TV! But her plan goes dramatically awry, and instead of rekindling her romance with Roger, she finds herself stuck with a man she hardly recognizes and doesn't even like. Suddenly, Elizabeth is breaking into the doctor's office, running from the law, and teaming up with a transplanted southern belle-all in a desperate attempt to restore Roger to his old, imperfect self. What she learns is that perfection, especially when it comes to husbands, is highly overrated. The question is: does her revelation come too late?
Subject
  • Perfectionism (Personality trait) > Fiction
  • Herbs > Therapeutic use > Fiction
  • Married people > Fiction
  • Beverly Hills (Calif.) > Fiction
Genre/Form
  • Fiction
  • Domestic fiction.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
ISBN
0312986734 (pbk.)
OCLC
  • 51844896
  • SCSB-11765368
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library