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Promises to Keep

A Novel

by Jane Green
Cassandra Campbell
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Callie Perry is a successful family photographer living in tony Bedford, New York. She adores her children, has great friends, and actually doesn’t mind that her workaholic husband gets home at 9 p.m. every night. Steffi is Callie’s younger sister, and unlike her irrefutably settled sibling, Steffi has never grown up. She’s always been a free spirit, living in Manhattan. But she will discover another side of herself—one that finds a simpler life in the country, with its steadier pleasures, surprisingly seductive.
Lila Grossman is Callie’s best friend and has finally met the man of her dreams. But there’s a problem: a demanding harridan ex-wife who is determined to create a perennial crisis to keep attention firmly on her. And then there are Callie and Steffi’s parents. Divorced for thirty years, they rarely speak to each other. They may share two grown-up daughters, but it’s obvious they share little else.
Promises to Keep is about the hard choices we have to face, about having to be your parents’ child long after you’ve grown up, and finally, about the enduring nature of love.

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  • Release date

    June 15, 2010

  • Formats

    • OverDrive Listen audiobook

      • ISBN: 9781415948651
      • File size: 341856 KB
      • Duration: 11:52:11

  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • Publisher's Weekly

      April 26, 2010
      In Green’s 12th novel, Callie Perry is a happily married photographer with two wonderful kids, a lovable sister, Steffi, and a best friend, Lila. Problems are minor: Steffi can never settle down, Lila has finally found love but the guy has a nightmare of an ex, and Callie and Steffi’s divorced parents haven’t spoken in 30 years. But then Callie, a breast cancer survivor, is diagnosed with a rare and incurable complication of the disease. Suddenly realizing that she has only months to live, she begins the painful process of saying good-bye. While the subject matter is intense and personal, it’s far from depressing; the characters are warm, funny and realistic. Green (The Beach House) manages to create an authentic tale of a woman who truly loves her life and family and is trying to do the right thing for them before she dies. While Green breaks up her chapters with recipes (presumably because Steffi is a cook), this peculiar modern conceit in women’s literature feels like a misstep. Overall, Green once again delivers an enjoyable emotional story.

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  • OverDrive Listen audiobook

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  • English

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