NEW RELEASE
The New Me - Mary Marcus (2014)
Harriet is outside her old house, watching the vignette unfold inside of her husband Jules with his new lover. And for Harriet, who has her own cable TV cooking show, the regret is even more cutting because she was the one who welcomed Lydia into their lives, after meeting her at yoga class. Harriet feels discarded, with even her sons having moved out to get on with their adult lives. Now she has to figure out how to move on with her life, after installing a "New Me" in her old life. This well-written, poignant story is totally intriguing, as the narrator reveals more about how she was replaced in her own home.
The New Me, by Mary Marcus, is about the price of becoming who you want to be. The summary says: "Harriet is floundering. She's in her early forties, her kids have gone to college, her marriage feels empty, her cable TV cooking show has lost its sense of inspiration, and she longs to leave the West Coast for New York. Then one day she meets Lydia, a gorgeous woman in her late twenties. Lydia reminds her so much of herself a decade or so past, and her husband, who hardly likes anything, likes Lydia as well. It slowly dawns on Harriet that Lydia could be the answer to everything that's ailing her. All she needs to do is turn Lydia into 'the new me'." The New Me is out in May 2014.