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The Richest Season
 

The Richest Season

by Maryann Abromitis Mcfadden

A lonely corporate wife who runs away from home. An elderly woman facing a devastating loss. A top executive adrift in the world after he’s fired. These are the characters in Maryann McFadden’s "The Richest Season." Set on beautiful Pawley’s Island, South Carolina, here is a novel about second chances occurring at the most inopportune times in life. In three parallel journeys Joanna, Paul and... (read more)

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krisT J
  • Rated 4 stars

“The Richest Season is like a life lesson. To look around and see how your own life is running and how you feel about yourself and your family or loved ones. In this story Joanna is the wife of a hard working corporate man who loves her and their two grown children but has little time for them. Joanna looks at all they have become and thinks this is not what she wants out of life. You work so you have things and better things but if you don't have time to enjoy them then is it worth it? She...”

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24girl
  • Rated 2 stars

“The story begins with corporate wife, Joanna, faced with yet another move to a new city. In her 25 years as Paul’s wife she’s moved and started over more than a dozen times. Never able to have close friends or meaningful jobs Joanna finally says no more and leaves her home and heads to a small island she fell in love with years before.

I found a lot of the story was disjointed and unbelievable. In the opening pages, her escape is made to seem spur of the moment. One minute she’s out...”

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  • Rated 5 stars
  

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