"Humor and poignancy go hand in hand in Sharon Potts's latest, Goodbye Neverland. You can't help but laugh out loud on page one when Potts's forty-something protagonist, Wendy Wright, shares wry observations while lying spread eagle on the examining table in the gynecologist's office. Yet that doctor's visit is a watershed moment for Wendy, who begins to question the choices she made years before to forego a promising career and devote her energies instead to raising her family. No longer sure of her purpose in life or her value to family and society, Wendy decides to reenter the workforce, only to set off a chain of events—some humorous, some heartbreaking—that will leave the reader rooting for her all the way to the very end."
—Julie Compton, author of Tell No Lies and Rescuing Olivia
Wendy Wright, a stay-at-home mom, has a fairy-tale existence with three terrific teenage kids, a handsome husband, and a comfortable upscale lifestyle. She's even won second place in the 'Warmest Hearth in Our Hometown' competition and makes a killer chili. But Wendy worries about finding fulfillment "after the kids have gone off to college" and decides it's time to step off the 'Mommy Track' and venture out of Neverland. Despite her family's misgivings, she takes a temp job that's well beneath her abilities as a one-time successful MBA. But before long, hyper-competent Wendy is practically running things at the poorly managed company. Unfortunately, things aren't so great at home. The kids are getting into trouble, Wendy's widowed father has come to live with them, and her husband has lost his job and dignity in his own mid-life crisis.
Wendy feels the crush of the sandwich generation as she tries to juggle work, family and a marriage that's fast unraveling. But Wendy's not about to give up on her family, the company...or herself.
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CreateSpace, (December 2011), ISBN-13: 978-1468084108
I stared up at my bare legs suspended at ninety-degree angles from ice cold steel stirrups. The gynecologist's examining table could have only been designed by a man. And probably a Nazi dentist, at that. I adjusted the thin paper sheet that covered my naked body, deciding that my new ob/gyn was either incredibly cheap or a member of a minimalist religious sect. At least Dr. Silverblatt had provided his patients with cotton gowns, woolen booties and a watercolor of a sunset hung high on the wall so it was visible from a supine position. I was still sulking about his retirement. For the past twenty years, Dr. Silverblatt had been the only man to have had this particular view of me other than my husband. The door to the closet-size room opened and slammed shut. A young man with a stethoscope hanging in front of his white jacket and a woman in scrubs covered with fuchsia flying kites squeezed around the examining table.
"Hello. I'm Dr. Falas, and you must be Mrs. Wright, right?" The young man grinned as though pleased with his witticism and held up his fingers for a "high five."
"Please call me Wendy." I reached over awkwardly to slap the hand of the looming Greek god who looked as though he'd only just completed medical school. He was going to examine me? If I had known that Adonis would be fondling my uterus, I might have done a better job shaving my legs.
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"Humor and poignancy go hand in hand in Sharon Potts's latest, Goodbye Neverland. You can't help but laugh out loud on page one when Potts's forty-something protagonist, Wendy Wright, shares wry observations while lying spread eagle on the examining table in the gynecologist's office. Yet that doctor's visit is a watershed moment for Wendy, who begins to question the choices she made years before to forego a promising career and devote her energies instead to raising her family. No longer sure of her purpose in life or her value to family and society, Wendy decides to reenter the workforce, only to set off a chain of events—some humorous, some heartbreaking—that will leave the reader rooting for her all the way to the very end."
—Julie Compton, author of Tell No Lies and Rescuing Olivia