Like Mother, Like Daughter (Red Dress Ink) [Paperback]

Jane Sigaloff (Author)

Book Description

Series: Red Dress Ink | Publication Date: May 1, 2006

Imagine your mother being more determined to find a man than you've ever been.

When single-again newspaper columnist Suzie Fletcher announces that her only wish is for her and her daughter to be dating someone by the time of her sixtieth birthday party, twenty-nine-year-old divorcee Alice Harrison wishes she could trade her mother in for a more conventional model.

With only six weeks of her fifties remaining, Suzie is happy to try anything once and starts dating Tom, a wealthy boy toy, fifteen years her junior.

Her mother hot on her heels, life-coach Alice breaks all the rules and falls for a client. Guilty about mixing business with pleasure, there's a much greater shock in store for her . . .

Alice and Suzie had always been close. Now they're about to get closer. Forget about love triangles, welcome to the love circus.

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Alice, 29, and Suzie, her 59-year-old mother, couldn't be more different. Alice, a life coach, is still processing the amiable end of her marriage to Richard, who realized after they married that he was gay. Suzie has been widowed once and divorced twice, but that hasn't dampened her enthusiasm for dating. Suzie, who has recently moved in with Alice, decides that with three months to go until her sixtieth birthday, it's time for the reticent Alice to get back in the game, so Suzie sets a challenge: they both need to be dating men by her big sixtieth birthday party. Suzie already has a head start--she has met a handsome younger man named Tom on the train. But when she recommends Alice to Tom for life coaching and neglects to mention that Alice is her daughter, sparks fly between coach and client. Sigaloff, author of Lost & Found (2004), offers up another charming comedy with this witty tale of romantic mishaps. Kristine Huntley
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Product Details

• Paperback: 384 pages
• Publisher: Red Dress Ink (May 1, 2006)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0373895593
• ISBN-13: 978-0373895595
• Product Dimensions: 7.8 x 5.1 x 1.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 10.4 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 3.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,158,714 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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4.0 out of 5 stars Interesting twist on dating..., June 26, 2008

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Tracy Vest (Northern California) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Like Mother, Like Daughter (Red Dress Ink) (Paperback)

Alice is a "life coach" and divorced amiably from Richard, with whom she still shares a close friendship. She has not really wanted to jump back into the dating pool. Her mother Suzie is a social butterfly who cannot imagine not having a date or two and challenges Alice to find a date to take to Suzie's 60th birthday. The challenge is on... only three months to go. But while Alice isn't really interested in making the effort, Suzie is managing to lasso them in by the handful - her most promising date is a handsome younger man she met on a train named Tom. Alice hopes that best pal Zoe will join them in the internet ads and speed dating, but she is busy trying to locate her birth parents. When Tom takes Suzie up on her recommendation that he could benefit from working with a life coach, he son finds himself attracted to Alice. Unbeknownst to the trio, Tom is soon involved with them both.

Diving back into the dating pool can be hard enough, but Sigaloff turns it on its ear with her mother/daughter twist in a wry and humorous manner. The two could not be more different. I loved the relationship between Alice and Richard - they might not have been cut out to be lovers (he was gay), but they were still very close friends. And Alice's relationship with Zoe brings out further vulnerability - and a nice surprising twist in their relationship.

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2.0 out of 5 stars Could have been better., September 19, 2006

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Little D (California) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Like Mother, Like Daughter (Red Dress Ink) (Paperback)

I'm sorry to say I read about half of it until I gave up and skipped to the end and partially read the last chapter.
I dont know what it was about the book that just didn't keep me hooked. Thankfully I got it from the library so it didn't cost me anything.
Hopefully Sigaloff's next book will entertain me more.

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4.0 out of 5 stars warm relationship chick lit tale, April 25, 2006

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Harriet Klausner - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Like Mother, Like Daughter (Red Dress Ink) (Paperback)

Fifty-nine years old Suzie has plenty of dates while her twenty-nine years old daughter Alice has none. Suzie wants her daughter to be happy so she concocts a plan in which her birthday wish is for both of them to be dating by the time she turn sixty in a few weeks. Though she hates the dating scene, Alice reluctantly agrees to find a man to join her at her mom's sixtieth birthday bash

Alice looks around at work and sees few men eligible to escort her to her mom's birthday bash. At the same she struggles to find date, Suzie hones in on a younger man, which makes Alice wonder if her mom is being devious and setting her up to be with this man. Also her best friend Zoe enlists Alice's help in finding her biological parents taking time away from finding her dream date as the countdown reaches two weeks.

The strong cast especially the mother and daughter roommates keep this somewhat madcap tale from becoming inane. Instead, with strong secondary characters providing sometimes zany support, Suzie and Alice seem genuine as each seeks in their own way the right man for the big date. Jane Sigaloff provides a warm relationship chick lit tale.

Harriet Klausner