Suddenly Single: Money Skills for Divorces and Widows (Wiley Personal Finance Solutions) [Paperback]

Kerry Hannon (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0471243116 | ISBN-13: 978-0471243113 | Publication Date: April 17, 1998 | Edition: 1

"Suddenly Single provides divorced or widowed women with essential information that can transform their lives. The book should be viewed as an essential survival kit for all suddenly singles." --Dr. Christopher Hayes Executive Director, National Center for Women and Retirement.

"This book will help you protect the assets you have, pay the bills, organize your income, and--maybe--eventually come to believe you can survive the grief and be a wiser person for it." --Marthy Priddy Patterson Author, The Working Woman's Guide to Retirement Planning.

"This is the personal finance book for women. Whether you are married, divorced, widowed, or single, you should read Suddenly Single and use the advice and guidance today that this book provides." --Ronald W. Roge, MS, CFP President R. W. Roge & Company, Inc., Financial & Investment Advisory Firm.

"I have spoken to many women whose financial lives have been devastated by divorce or widowhood. Now, with Suddenly Single, there's an excellent resource to help them financially through the difficult transition." --Gerri Detweiler Author, The Ultimate Credit Handbook.

Editorial Reviews

Review

Suddenly Single is one of several books recommended as a valuable resource for handling investments, taxes and legal impediments if you don't fit the definition of a nuclear family. "The basics, from financial writer Kerry Hannon: investing, estate planning, saving for retirement."--U.S News & World Report

An article featuring an excerpt of Suddenly Single was recently published in USA Today. "This special report will help you gain control of your finances if you find yourself suddenly single."--USA Today

From the Publisher

A personal finance guide for women who must learn to manage their own money-often for the first time. Approximately half of all marriages end in divorce. What's more, women, on average, live seven years longer than men. Suddenly Single is written for the ever-growing group of divorcees and widows facing the often overwhelming task of becoming solely responsible for their own economic well-being.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 224 pages
• Publisher: Wiley; 1 edition (April 17, 1998)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0471243116
• ISBN-13: 978-0471243113
• Product Dimensions: 8.8 x 5.9 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 11.2 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,172,576 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Kerry Hannon is an award-winning author and career reinvention expert. She is a nationally acclaimed personal finance and retirement authority and the AARP Jobs Expert. She writes the Great Jobs for Retirees column on AARP.com. She is a Contributing Editor for Forbes Magazine and writes the Second Verse column. She is also a contributing editor and retirement correspondent for U.S. News & World Report. Her new book is WHAT'S NEXT? Follow Your Passion and Find Your Dream Job (Chronicle Books), winner of the Independent Book Publishers bronze medal for Career and Business Books and Axiom Business book award. Hannon is also the Money section book review columnist for USA Today.

Hannon is the author of Getting Started In Estate Planning (John Wiley & Sons), Suddenly Single: Money Skills for Divorcees and Widows (John Wiley & Sons), Ten Minute Guide to Retirement for Women (MacMillan Publishing), and You and Your Money: A Passage from Debt to Prosperity (Credit Education Group). She has penned one non-fiction saga of an American Indian Trading Post, Trees in a Circle: The Teec Nos Pos Story (Teec Nos Pos Trading Post).
Hannon has previously served as a reporter and personal finance columnist for USA Today and as a writer and editor for U.S. News & World Report, Money, Kiplinger's Personal Finance, and Forbes. She was a regular women and money columnist for iVillage.com.

Hannon's work has been published in The Wall Street Journal, Business Week, Readers Digest, Good Housekeeping, Institutional Investor and Advertising Age, among other national publications.
She has appeared as a financial expert on ABC News, CBS, Fox, CNBC, and CNN and has been a guest on numerous radio programs, including National Public Radio's "Talk of The Nation."
Hannon received a Bachelor of Art's degree from Duke University and is currently a member of an editorial board at Duke.
For more on Kerry, visit, http://www.kerryhannon.com/

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

10 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The book is easy to read and extremely informative., September 17, 1998

By A Customer

This review is from: Suddenly Single: Money Skills for Divorces and Widows (Wiley Personal Finance Solutions) (Paperback)

This is an excellant book for any women interested in handling her own affairs. I recommend it for anyone wanting to take care of themselves financially. She has some great pointers. The book is easy to read and not to technical.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars I wish I had it before I was single!, June 1, 2005

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This review is from: Suddenly Single: Money Skills for Divorces and Widows (Wiley Personal Finance Solutions) (Paperback)

This book has practical advice for anyone - male, female, single, divorced, widowed. It has become my well-worn financial "bible". I just wish I had read it before I became single!

4 of 27 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars anti-man, September 7, 1999

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