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All You Could Ask For by Mike Greenberg (William Morrow, April 2013)

Mike Greenberg, the ESPN King of Guy Talk and host of Mike and Mike, has written his first novel from the point of view of not one woman, but three, and has done remarkably well capturing the sensibilities of a woman.  Samantha tends towards being an extreme athlete and is a very independent woman until she falls in love and has a whirlwind courtship with the man Daddy tells her is the wrong guy.  Guess what?  Daddy is always right.  Brooke is the happily married mother of twins, is wildly in love with her husband and has plans to rock his world with the gift she has chosen for his fortieth birthday; instead, he turns the tables on her making a request that rocks her world in a much different way.  Katherine appears to have everything: a corner office, Upper East Side apartment, South Hampton home, an assistant, a driver, but there is one thing always out of her reach: the companionship and friendship of another human.  These seemingly disparate women share two things in common: Greenwich, Connecticut and something that proves to be life altering for all of them and brings them together to form uncommon bonds.  A very well written first novel with three characters to care about and root for, to laugh with and to cry with.