Take it from Me
Book Feature - Take it from Me by Jamie Beck
HBL Note:Wall Street Journal and USA Today bestselling author Jamie Beck is back with a new novel about female friendship. Known for her stories about love, family, self-discovery, and redemption, TAKE IT FROM ME, is certain to be the compelling and heartwarming novel we need this fall.
TAKE IT FROM ME explores themes of kleptomania, friendship, and life’s little secrets with compassion and humor. Wendy Moore thought she’d stopped her kleptomania tendencies with therapy but life’s anxiety is proving to trigger her compulsion once again. Scroll down to read more.
“Clever, insightful, and brimming with empathy, Take It from Me is Jamie Beck at her best. The story of two very different neighbors closely guarding secrets who have more in common than either woman can imagine, Beck’s latest novel is a potent reminder that we are able to know the interior lives of those we care about―if only we can find the courage to ask.” ―Camille Pagán, bestselling author of This Won’t End Well
Book Feature - Take it from Me by Jamie Beck
Book Feature - Take it from Me by Jamie Beck
From the publisher:
Wendy Moore hides her collection of pilfered bric-a-brac from everyone, including her husband. He thinks she licked her kleptomania in therapy more than a decade ago. Therapy did help, as did focusing her attention on motherhood. But now Wendy’s gardening and furniture-refinishing hobbies fill up only so much of the day, leaving the recent empty nester lonely and anxious―a combination likely to trigger her little problem. She needs a project, fast. Luckily, Harper Ross―a single, childless younger woman in desperate need of highlights―just moved in next door.
The only thing Harper wants to change is the writer’s block toppling her confidence and career. Then a muse comes knocking. Sensing fodder for a new antagonist, Harper plays along with Wendy’s “helpful” advice while keeping her career a secret so Wendy keeps talking. Sure, she’s torn about profiting off her neighbor’s goodwill―especially when Wendy’s matchmaking actually pans out―but Harper’s novel is practically writing itself.
Just as a real friendship begins to cement, their deceptions come to light, threatening Wendy’s and Harper’s futures and forcing them to reconcile who they are with who they want to be. Easier said than done.
