Good Company

Good CompanyFrom the brilliant Kate Christensen, winner of the PEN Faulkner award for The Great Man, comes a compelling, searing, funny novel about women, sex, power, and self reckoning. Ever since her father broke her heart when she was nine, Julia Heimdahl has tried to be good company for bad men: a jovial drinking companion, an easygoing, witty non complainer, one of the boys. Now a literary novelist in late middle age and late mid career, she is at a moment

I've sworn to hate him to the end of my days

Manuela proposes a trade: her beloved land for a summer with the duchess in her corner of Paris

From the desperation of golden crowns

Standing on the edge of disaster

And since her mom was the live-in caretaker for his family's estate in high school

and breath-stealing tension for fans of J

and the shadows of their pasts threaten to pull them apart

Coziness: 2/5

He wants me to his wife in more ways than just that piece of paper that binds us

the more she pretends to be the luckiest woman alive

When Raihn offers Oraya a secret alliance

Jess loves volleyball―she really does