Kirkus Reviews

A divorced mother’s funny, chatty, revealing take on Splitsville—with just enough anguish and sadness to be utterly believable.


Publisher's Weekly

With cheerfully self-deprecating humor, Nestor shares her divorce process, always giving generous credit to the family and friends who helped her, and in her telling she offers hope that if that's what readers are facing, they, too, can manage.




Kirkus Reviews Special Issue: Top Picks for Reading Groups 2008

Nestor... had to learn to negotiate single life again, but she brings such grace and humor to the effort that her family’s story is a pleasure to read.






Ladies' Home Journal

Her clever and relatable prose makes her tale endearing and insightful, and she sidesteps the cliches of a woman wounded with bittersweet honesty.

Hallmark Magazine

Nestor’s quick wit and delightful prose counterbalance the stark reality of her situation: having to re-create life for herself and her two daughters after her husband gambles away thousands of dollars. This bittersweet memoir is imbued with a mother’s strength, resilience and, eventually, faith in the possibility of a new romance.


Seattle Post-Intelligencer

Her account has remarkable candor, but also self-deprecating humor.

USA Today

Nestor captures the sense of stigma and failure many divorced parents feel.


The Vancouver Courier

A beautifully told story that's as much about family, love and identity as it is about one of life's most traumatic events.

Seattle Magazine

Nestor writes with a self-possession and gentleness that is arresting—offering sentiment, without sentimentality.


www.BookBabes.com

Nestor's story of how her marriage imploded and, better yet, how she survived, marks the steps of denial, grief and acceptance that go with having a man flake out on you. Oprah watchers, this one's for you. 


North Shore Outlook

Nestor is a brave and outstanding storyteller.