Younger (A Younger Novel)

Younger (A Younger Novel)

A story of inspiration and transformation for the really desperate housewife—now a TV series from the creator of <I>Sex and the City</I>, starring Sutton Foster and Hilary Duff!<BR><BR><I>She’s old enough to be his mother.</I><BR> <BR> Alice has always looked young for her age, even with her graying hair and her dowdy New Jersey housewife style. Make that <I>ex-</I>housewife: Now that her husband’s gone and her daughter is grown, Alice is in desperate need of a whole new life. So she lets her best friend Maggie, a hip New York City artist, transform her on New Year’s Eve. Soon, thanks to the wonders of hair dye and tight jeans, Alice looks <I>really</I> young, as one night in a Manhattan bar confirms. At midnight, she kisses a boy who was in diapers when she was in high school.<BR> <BR> <I>She’s having too much fun to care. </I><BR> <BR> The white lie Alice tells Josh gets her thinking that if no one asks her age, she doesn’t have to tell. So she applies for a job she had briefly before becoming a full-time mom—and gets it. Meanwhile, Josh is falling head over heels for Alice, who’s just way cooler than girls his age. He figures she’s about twenty-nine—and for the first time since she was twenty-nine, or possibly ever, Alice feels that life is ripe with possibility. Unfortunately one possibility is that she’s gonna get caught.<BR> <BR> Challenging the adage that the truth will set you free, <I>Younger</I> is a hilarious and insightful story that proves that you’re only as young as you feel.