Bøger af Jennifer Weiner

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTELLER From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of That Summer comes another heartfelt and unputdownable novel of family, secrets, and the ties that bind. When her twenty-two-year-old stepdaughter announces her engagement to her pandemic boyfriend, Sarah Danhauser is shocked. But the wheels are in motion. Headstrong Ruby has already set a date (just three months away!) and spoken to her beloved safta, Sarah's mother Veronica, about having the wedding at the family's beach house in Cape Cod. Sarah might be worried, but Veronica is thrilled to be bringing the family together one last time before putting the big house on the market. But the road to a wedding day usually comes with a few bumps. Ruby has always known exactly what she wants, but as the wedding date approaches, she finds herself grappling with the wounds left by the mother who walked out when she was a baby. Veronica ends up facing unexpected news, thanks to her meddling sister, and must revisit the choices she made long ago, when she was a bestselling novelist with a different life. Sarah's twin brother, Sam, is recovering from a terrible loss, and confronting big questions about who he is?questions he hopes to resolve during his stay on the Cape. Sarah's husband, Eli, who's been inexplicably distant during the pandemic, confronts the consequences of a long ago lapse from his typical good-guy behavior. And Sarah, frustrated by her husband, concerned about her stepdaughter, and worn out by challenges of life during quarantine, faces the alluring reappearance of someone from her past and a life that could have been. When the wedding day arrives, lovers are revealed as their true selves, misunderstandings take on a life of their own, and secrets come to light. There are confrontations and revelations that will touch each member of the extended family, ensuring that nothing will ever be the same. From "the undisputed boss of the beach read" (The New York Times), The Summer Place is a testament to family in all its messy glory; a story about what we sacrifice and how we forgive. Enthralling, witty, big-hearted, and sharply observed, this is Jennifer Weiner's love letter to the Outer Cape and the power of home, the way our lives are enriched by the people we call family, and the endless ways love can surprise us.

Jennifer Weiner's talent shines like never before in this collection of short stories, following the tender, often hilarious, progress of love and relationships over the course of a lifetime. We meet Marlie Davidow, home alone with her new baby late one night, when she wanders onto her ex's online wedding registry and wonders what if she had wound up with the guy not taken. We find Jessica Norton listing her beloved river-view apartment in the hope of winning her broker's heart. And we follow an unlikely friendship between two very different new mothers, and the choices that bring them together -- and pull them apart.

After Sylvie's politician husband has an affair that makes headlines, she andher two daughters are drawn into the painful glare of the national spotlight.Once the press conference is over, each is forced to reconsider her life, whoshe is, and who she is meant to be.

'Observant, self-aware, and very funny . . . the perfect quarantine read' USA Today The No. 1 New York Times bestselling author returns with an unforgettable novel about friendship set during a disastrous wedding on picturesque Cape Cod.Six years after the fight that ended their friendship, Daphne Berg is shocked when Drue Cavanaugh walks back into her life, looking as lovely and successful as ever, with a massive favour to ask. Daphne hasn't spoken one word to Drue in all this time - she doesn't even hate-follow her ex-best friend on social media - so when Drue asks if she will be her maid of honour at the society wedding of the summer, Daphne is rightfully speechless.Drue was always the one who had everything - except the ability to hold onto friends. Meanwhile, Daphne's no longer the same self-effacing sidekick she was back in high school. She's built a life that she loves, including a growing career as a plus-size Instagram influencer. Letting glamorous, seductive Drue back into her life is risky, but it comes with an invitation to spend a weekend in a waterfront Cape Cod mansion. When Drue begs and pleads and dangles the prospect of cute single guys, Daphne finds herself powerless as ever to resist her friend's siren song.______________Discover why readers are IN LOVE with Jennifer Weiner: 'Big Summer is the perfect beach read' PopSugar'Nothing short of brilliant' People'Friendship, weddings, and rich people being weird? Obviously I am in' Literary Hub'If you love Jennifer Weiner, you'll love this one' Kirkus Reviews, starred review'Big Summer is a big, fun summer read' Booklist

Blockbuster #1 New York Times bestselling author Jennifer Weiner returns with a sweeping love story and a modern-day fairy tale

Addie og Valerie bliver som niårige hinandens bedste venner. Det sker samme dag, som Valerie flytter ind i huset overfor Addies i den lille by Pleasant Ridge, Illinois. Op igennem skoletiden er de to piger uadskillelige, men som Val vokser op og bliver smuk og populær, og Addie samtidig bliver mere og mere overvægtig, genert og stille, glider de langsomt fra hinanden og oplever et regulært brud i high school.Femten år senere bor Addie stadig i sit barndomshjem. På trods af et stort vægttab holder hun sig mest for sig selv, og derfor har hun heller ikke accepteret invitationen til skolens jubilæumsfest. Men samme aften, som festen bliver afholdt, ringer det på døren, og udenfor står hendes gamle bedsteveninde med et forfærdet udtryk i øjnene og blod på jakkeærmet. Fortiden har indhentet hende, og Val har desperat brug for Addies hjælp. Minderne om det forliste venskab gør stadig ondt, men inden Addie ved af det, er Val dog tilbage i hendes liv, og det skal vise sig at blive en interessant genforening … BEDSTE VENNER handler om svigt, loyalitet, eventyr, tragedier, misforståelser og hemmeligheder, om at finde kærlighed, når man mindst venter det, og om de bånd, der binder bedste venner sammen.

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author and columnist comes a collection of heartwarming personal essays.

The story of a writer and her grandmother as they head to Hollywood to pursue a lifelong dream, from the bestselling author of In Her Shoes.

You fell in love with Cannie Shapiro, now meet Rose Feller in Jennifer Weiner's follow-up to the much loved Good in Bed.

Rose er 30 år og en succesrig advokat med en hemmelig svaghed for kærlighedsromaner. Hun er altid ved at planlægge sit nye motionsprogram, som hun begynder på i næste uge, og hun drømmer om prinsen på den hvide hest. Hun drømmer også om, at hendes vilde lillesøster tager sig sammen og får styr på sit liv.Maggie er Roses lillesøster. Hun er 28 år, guddommeligt smuk og lever af tilfældige job. Hun er backingsanger i et band og drømmer om hurtig rigdom og berømmelse –og om at hendes kedelige søster endelig begynder at gøre noget ud af sig selv.Det eneste, der binder Rose og Maggie sammen, er blodets bånd. Da Rose endnu engang er blevet drevet ud af sin varme seng for at hente Maggie fra endnu en fest, og takken er, at Maggie forfører Roses kæreste, får Rose endelig nok og nægter at have mere med Maggie at gøre. Men de opdager begge, at de trods deres anstrengte forhold savner hinanden. Kun stolthed afholder dem fra at genoptage kontakten – indtil Maggie opdager en hemmelighed, der vender op og ned på deres liv.