Your Roots Are Showing
Lizzie Buckley's life changes the instant she sends an email to her sister complaining about unsuccessfully trying to balance 24-hour-a-day motherhood responsibilities with the romantic attention her husband expects. She even tells her sister that life might be easier if he wasn't around at all.
Unfortunately she ends up being forced to test out that theory.
Your Roots Are Showing is a delightful novel addressing the slow erosion of a marriage, and perhaps that of a woman as well. That sounds awfully sad and haunting, but that is not the tone of the book. Elise Chidley tells about the crumbling of a marriage and the hard choices with an honest and reflective tone (and more than one light moment that made me laugh out loud).
I don't often like to read books that deal with the dissolution of a marriage, or the starting over period that happens next, but without giving anything away, I will say that the tone of the book and the choices made within the pages combined to make this a great read, encouraging personal reflection and evaluation in just the right amount.
Your Roots Are Showing is Elise Chidley's first novel. and I'd definitely read her second.
We have five copies to give away (U.S. or Canadian shipping addresses). If you'd like to win one, please leave a comment. We'll announce the winners on 2/18.
Managing Editor Jennifer Donovan also blogs at Snapshot about life with her tween daughter and preschool son.














Comments on Your Roots Are Showing
Kari @ 8:24 pm
Typically this book doesn't sound like something I would be drawn to, but your review of it does intrigue me! Thanks!!
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I agree, the topic sounds depressing, but your review makes it sound like a good read.
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Sounds like something I would enjoy reading. Please add my name to the contest to win one of the copies you have to give away!
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Barbara H. @ Stray Thoughts @ 8:58 pm
I, too, didn't think this sounded like a book I would be interested in — I don't like it when marriages dissolve either — but your comments plus the ones at Amazon make it sound interesting. Sign me up!
Dawn @ 9:30 pm
This seems to go along with the theme of a few of my latest reads, so I am intrigued– putting it on the library list now.
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Michele @ 10:09 pm
Sounds interesting. I just finished reading LOVE AND OTHER NATURAL DISASTERS which about a marriage in trouble too. Like you, it's not something I would normally read about, but after reading your review this seems like something I would really enjoy reading.
Amy @ Hope Is the Word @ 10:32 pm
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I love delving into the human psyche, probably why I majored in Counseling in Grad School. Would love this book!
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Christina @ 12:07 am
The slow erosion of a marriage and perhaps of a woman – it's true, relationships degrade slowly, and before one knows it they're actually in shreds, and it takes a particularly good writer to be able to show that slow decline.
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