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The Breakdown Lane

by

Jacquelyn Mitchard

Julieanne Steiner loves her life, she is a devoted wife and mother, who writes an advice column for a Wisconsin newspaper. As an agony aunt she dishes out advice to people who need answers to intimate situations and questions in their lives. Little does she know that her happy family life is about to be shattered and that she will need all her inner strenght to cope with the deserting of her family by her husband and the devastation of the diagnosis of a debilitating disease.

Jacquelyn Mitchard has written an excellent story about love, loss and renewal. The book has two main voices Julie and her son Gabe. We follow the story by reading both Julieanne's and Gabe's personal journals.

This is a good read.

 I would also recommend other novels by Jacquelyn Mitchard, for example: Deep End of the Ocean. Mitchard writes about ordinary people who face life changing events and how this impacts on their lives and the lives of those around them.

If you like the novels of Jodi Picoult, you will like Jacqulyn Mitchard's books.

Elaine