How to talk to a Widower - Jonathan Tropper

The best way to sum up Jonathan Tropper's novel "How to Talk to a Widower" is to paraphrase a recurring statement from this book. That is: "Doug Parker had a wife. Her name was Hailey. Now she's gone. And so is he." You see, Doug married Hailey - a divorcee 10 years his senior with a teenaged son Russ whose father is busy with his new trophy wife. Two years after they were married, Hailey died in a plane crash, leaving Doug her home in the suburbs, her angry son who doesn't want to live with his father, a large settlement from the airline and Doug's life in a shambles. But that was a year ago, and that means its time to move on, or so his ...

Whilst I would not describe myself as mean, I do like a good bargain and when I saw that I could buy Jonathan Tropper's "How to talk to a Widower" for only £1.99 if I spent over £10.00 I pounced. I picked up the book and gave the back cover blurb a cursory skim but if the truth be told, I could not remember anything about it by the time I got home. I have been pleasantly surprised by other books I have chosen from those books selected for "Richard and Judy's Summer Reads" and so I suspected I would not be disappointed. However, the book sat for some weeks in the middle of a precarious tower of reading yet to be done, the moment never seemed right for ...