Before Amanda Applebyâs rise comes the fall...
When Amanda Appleby catches her husband messing with the belly dancer hired for his fiftieth birthday party, her once-perfectly curated life crashes down. With her marriage in ruins and little money from the property settlement, Amanda finds herself fifty, divorced, and broke.
Amanda retreats to her familyâs charming cottage in Cornwall to regroup and hits on a way to make money. She writes a book about how to renovate and sell a house. Peppered with cynical tips from Amandaâs own failed marriage, the book goes viral. Hailed as the âMarie Kondo for the Unhappily Married Woman,â Amanda is thrust into stardom. Invited as a contestant on a dating show, she meets Jack Walker, the showâs crabbyâbut surprisingly kind-heartedâscriptwriter and Amanda discovers that maybe romance isnât dead after all.
But when sheâs enlisted as the public face of a man-hating site, suddenly Amandaâs success turns toxic, threatening to derail both her career and her newfound relationship. But Amanda is no longer the dutiful wife she once was. Can the woman Amanda has become find it in herself to keep her star rising?
The Remarkable Rise of Amanda Appleby - Trish Morey
Before Amanda Applebyâs rise comes the fall...
When Amanda Appleby catches her husband messing with the belly dancer hired for his fiftieth birthday party, her once-perfectly curated life crashes down. With her marriage in ruins and little money from the property settlement, Amanda finds herself fifty, divorced, and broke.
Amanda retreats to her familyâs charming cottage in Cornwall to regroup and hits on a way to make money. She writes a book about how to renovate and sell a house. Peppered with cynical tips from Amandaâs own failed marriage, the book goes viral. Hailed as the âMarie Kondo for the Unhappily Married Woman,â Amanda is thrust into stardom. Invited as a contestant on a dating show, she meets Jack Walker, the showâs crabbyâbut surprisingly kind-heartedâscriptwriter and Amanda discovers that maybe romance isnât dead after all.
But when sheâs enlisted as the public face of a man-hating site, suddenly Amandaâs success turns toxic, threatening to derail both her career and her newfound relationship. But Amanda is no longer the dutiful wife she once was. Can the woman Amanda has become find it in herself to keep her star rising?