Alice Teakle is a Harvard grad but she's having trouble making it in the world. She gets fired from her job as an assistant casting director by a boss that she absolutely hated. Trying to figure out what to do next, she begins following Polly who was the golden girl at Harvard and has gone on to become a successful businesswoman married to a movie producer. Alice is good at following people without being noticed...until she finds Polly dead. Soon the police realize that Alice had been stalking Polly. Alice runs to seek help from the man she has loved for 14 years. The only problem is that he doesn't know Alice at all.
This is a debut book by Karen Bergreen and it was lots of fun. Alice is just plain weird. She is socially awkward, yet she is kind and very smart. When she finally gets a chance to meet her darling Charlie, he is adorable, too. Unfortunately, I didn't get quite as good of feel for the characters of Jean and Alice's mom. In a way, things tied up a little too neatly, but very sweetly at the end. Still, it was a very good story and I hope that we'll meet Alice again.
Rating - A
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