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Swapping Lives by Jane Green

Swapping Lives

by Jane Green

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  • Jun 2006, 410 pages
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Swapping Lives is a riotous and poignant look at what happens when two women, both of whom think their bliss lies elsewhere, walk in each other’s shoes for a month only to discover that happiness is closer than they’d ever thought.

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"Green's latest, like her more inspired ventures, is hard to put down, thanks to affable leading characters and interesting, if not particularly revealing, commentary on the cross-Atlantic cultural gap." - PW.
"Clothes, bags, shoes, romance, self-acceptance-all we've come to expect and done well enough." - Kirkus.
"Green's (The Other Woman) witty blend of chick lit and mom lit allows readers to escape and live vicariously through these two characters." - Library Journal.

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Jane Green Author Biography

Jane Green (born May 31, 1968), is the pen name of Jane Green Warburg, an English author of women's novels, who is viewed by many as a founder of the "Chick Lit" Genre.

Jane worked for many years as a journalist, writing women's features for The Daily Express, The Daily Mail, Cosmopolitan and others, with occasional forays into public relations for film, television, and the odd celebrity. The author of many bestselling novels, including Straight Talking, Jemima J, Mr. Maybe, Bookends, and Babyville.

Jane lives outside New York City with her husband and children.

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