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Theo
Pauline Nestor is the author of the memoir How to Sleep Alone
in a King-Size Bed (Crown), a 2008 Kirkus Reviews Top Pick for
Reading Groups.
How to Sleep Alone in a King-Size Bed chronicles the journey
of a woman leaving a long marriage and venturing into a new life as
a single mother. With two young daughters to support and her life as
a stay-at-home mother at an abrupt end, Nestor finds herself slipping
from “middle-class grace” as she attends a court-ordered
custody class, stumbles through job interviews, and --much to her surprise--
falls in love once again. As Theo rebuilds her life and recovers her
sense of self,
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she's
forced to confront her own family’s legacy of divorce, an act
that ultimately brings her closer to understanding her own divorce
and its impact on her two daughters. “I knew from experience
that for children divorce means half the world is constantly eclipsed.
When you’re
with one parent, the other must always slip out of view,” Nestor
writes.
The Ladies Home Journal describes How to Sleep Alone in
a King-Size Bed as “heartbreakingly honest, wryly
funny and revelatory.” This
memoir is sure to speak to anyone who has passed through the halls of
divorce court or risked tenderness after loss.
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“Theo Nestor
has an uncommon ability to evoke common yet very intense emotions. How
to Sleep Alone in a King-Size Bed
is smart, astringent, funny, precise, candid, and possesses not an
ounce of self-pity.”
— David Shields, author of The Thing About Life Is That One Day
You’ll Be Dead
“A divorced mother’s funny, chatty, revealing take on Splitsville—with
just enough anguish and sadness to be utterly believable. Women going through
the pain and turmoil of separation and divorce will appreciate Nestor’s
candor and wit. Not another slick how-to, but a comforting reminder that life
goes on after the spouse is gone.”
— Kirkus Reviews
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