I was prepared not to like Kelly Wilder.
Widowed at age fifty-two, the Southern belle and trophy wife learns
that her dead husband Mark has put her on an allowance of eleven thousand
dollars a month. Grateful but frustrated with the “high-class problem” of too
much time and money on her hands, Kelly chafes when Mark’s lawyers deliver
multiple assurances that nothing has to change.
Kelly wants things to change.
On a whim, she signs up for ballroom dancing and slowly rebuilds her
life with help from Nik, a young Russian dance teacher; Carolina, a cancer-stricken
woman in hospice; and Elyse, Kelly’s quirky best friend.
As Kelly embarks on a long-delayed journey to a purpose-filled life,
she re-evaluates her twenty-year marriage where she pretended “to be a whole
lot more conservative and stupider and nice” and kept the “safe man” happy. No
longer content to hide behind the picture-perfect tablescapes she once
delighted in creating, Kelly learns to apply one of the primary lessons of
dance: “You have to lose your balance in order to find it.”
Kim Wright's writing flows beautifully and rhythmically in this well-crafted
novel about the transformative power of second chances. Forty something and
fifty something women who find themselves at a crossroads will enjoy reading The
Unexpected Waltz.
After
retiring from a 31-year teaching career, Joanne Guidoccio launched a second act
as a writer. Her articles, book reviews and short stories have appeared in
newspapers, magazines and online. In September 2013, Soul Mate Publishing
released her debut novel, Between Land and Sea, as an eBook on Amazon. You can
visit her website at www.joanneguidoccio.com
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