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As a professional home stager, Sandy Sullivan is an expert at transforming cluttered rooms into attractive houses ready for sale. If only reinventing her life were as easy as choosing the perfect paint color. Shes eager to put her familys suburban Boston home on the market, to downsize, and to simplify her own life. But she must first deal with her foot-dragging husband and her grown son, who has moved back home after college to inhabit the basement "bat cave."After reading them the riot act, Sandy takes a job staging a boutique hotel in Atlanta recently acquired by her best friends boyfriend. The good news is that she can spend time with her recently married daughter, Shannon, in Atlanta. The bad news is that Shannon finds herself heading to Boston for job training, leaving Sandy and her southern son-in-law, Chance, as reluctant roommates. If thats not complicated enough, Sandy begins to suspect that her best friends boyfriend may be seeing another woman on the side. Filled with characters who are fresh and original, yet recognizable enough to live in your neighborhood--plus plenty of great tips and tricks for fixing up houses, and lives--this is a wise and witty story of letting go and moving on. Best Staged Plans is Claire Cook at her most humorous and heartfelt.
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Thanks so much for discovering my books! Reinvention is the story of my books and my life. I wrote my first novel in my minivan at 45. At 50, I walked the red carpet at the Hollywood premiere of the adaptation of my second novel, Must Love Dogs, starring Diane Lane and John Cusack, which is now a 7-book series. I'm the New York Times, USA Today, and international bestselling author of 21 fun and inspiring books. I was a teacher for sixteen years before writing my first book. I was born in Virginia, and lived for many years in Scituate, Massachusetts, a beach town between Boston and Cape Cod. After a stop in Atlanta, my husband and I now live on St. Simons Island, Georgia, which reminds us so much of Scituate, but without the snow!I have the world's most fabulous readers, and I'm forever grateful to you all for giving me the gift of this career.Go to ClaireCook.com for your free gift, 41 Essential Quotes To Get Your Glow On, exclusively for newsletter subscribers. You'll also be the first to find out when my next book comes out and stay in the loop for giveaways and insider extras.
