I hear this a lot, "I don't feel like reading a romance but I can't find anything else I like. Why doesn't anyone just write a great book for women?"

Well, sometimes they do! Here's one of them.

I love this book! I loved it from the first second I started reading it in manuscript form. Don't worry if you haven't read Elizabeth Barrett Browning since high school. This is a story about love, family, friendship, and, yes, about going on the Antiques Roadshow.

There's a scene in the book where our heroine's ex-boyfriend, under the guise of "self-help", decides to apologize for every lousy thing he'd ever done to her. I never laughed so hard.