Having it and eating it

Claire Masterson was the girl at school that Maggie Owen atways wanted to be. Confident, good-looking, she was the first to know the facts of life, the first to Sun-In her hair, the first, easity the first, to go ait the way. And when Maggie bumps into her twenty years later, it is as if nothing has changed: Ctaire's life is one of career moues to New York and great sex with married men; Maggie's is one of bringing up her children and never seeing her partner Jake, whose ever-demanding job has become his 'other woman'. Or has it ? Jake is eonsistently working late, working weekends, taking working tries abroad... and when Claire talks a little too knowledgeably about his movements, Maggie starts thinking the unthinkable. Her friends think she should confront them, but Maggie's got a better idea: she's going to have her cake and eat it too. Having It and Eating It is a comic, acutely intelligent novel about motherhood, infidelity, losing yourself and having it all. To be read, re-read and passed along.