Product Description

32-year-old Iris Hedge isn't exactly on sure footing. She's left her husband in LA and moved to New York for her dream job as a marketing researcher at one of the world's most prestigious firms. But after only five weeks, she's laid off. Now Iris is in a new town with no job, has a divorce on the horizon and only one friend to speak of-a wild-child named Val. When Val's twin sister Vickie asks Iris to spy on her possibly-cheating husband, Iris is desperate (and poor) enough to agree. Soon she has a whole new business on her hands - spying on men for the doubting women in their lives. Things get complicated when Vickie's husband Steve catches on to the fact that their coincidental meetings aren't coincidental at all. Not to mention how Steve makes her heart race. A funny, heart-wrenching romantic comedy about starting over and coming to terms with the gray areas of falling in love, It's About Your Husband marks the sparkling debut of novelist Lauren Lipton.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #283763 in Books
• Published on: 2006-10-19
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 352 pages

From Booklist
Iris is trying to make a new life for herself, but her old life just isn't cooperating. In the middle of her divorce, she moves to New York to take a new job. After a few weeks, though, she is laid off and left single, broke, and lost in the city. When she reluctantly agrees to spy on the husband of her friend's sister, she finds herself in the middle of a madcap romantic comedy. Iris' miscommunications, the obvious plot "twists," and the gay best friend-stylist will seem familiar to any reader of chick lit. However, it's all done with such a light touch that even the predictable is enjoyable. Lipton has a day job as an editor for a fashion magazine, and sprinkled throughout the novel a careful reader will find great tips on hair and makeup. An author's note at the end adds even more helpful hints on how to fix the beauty dilemmas Iris faces throughout. Marta Segal
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Review
'Smart, sassy and impossible to put down. Readers will love Lauren Lipton' - Meg Cabot, author of The Princess Diaries.

About the Author
Lauren Lipton is a journalist who specializes in lifestyle, business, fashion, and trend stories. Her work has appeared in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, Conde Nast Portfolio, In Style Weddings, Martha Stewart Weddings, Forbes Woman, Glamour, Marie Claire, and on National Public Radio's All ThingsConsidered. She lives in New York City and in Litchfield County, Connecticut.

For more information please visit www.laurenlipton.com/

Customer Reviews

A delightful mental bon-bon for a day you want a novel that is a treat!
Once started--I could not put the book down. I read it--start to finish--in one day, and found myself laughing out loud 'watching' Iris, the well-meaning heroine deal with the foibles of life; the demise of her marriage, perhaps that of a quasi-friend, among the fellow citizens in New York and with a parent who embraces their own faults to the frustration of a distant daughter.

Each character was woven with threads of people that I feel I have known at some point or another in my life. Ms. Lipton writes with the authority of a journalist and the creativity of an artist. The delightful result is a well written story that is at once comfortable, spellbinding, fun and fresh.

LOVED the unexpected twist at the end and hope Ms. Lipton's next book is as enjoyable as her freshman novel.

I encourage you to buy this book!

Funny, Touching ... and Great Shoe Tips all in One
Iris Hedge is one of the funniest, most engaging modern heroines I've met in ages. Her plight through divorce and joblessness in the big city will ring true to any young woman who's had to refashion her life and her presumptions. When she finds herself unemployed she takes on the job of spying on her friend's sister's husband. She makes a few wrong assumptions, but then, so do we--just when we think we know where the book is going, it surprises us and Iris, in the end, DOES get it right. Along the way, we learn how to wear heels without getting blisters and what shade of lipstick will really work (and how not to dye your hair!). I loved the picture of New York City that emerges--it's a real Valentine to the city and to the resourceful young people who come there every year to find a second chance. Beneath all the humor and fashion tips, this is a wise and mature book. I look forward to reading more of Ms. Lipton!

Good laugh, a light story, engaging characters
Reviewed by Susan Pettrone for Reader Views (11/06)

"It's About Your Husband" opens with `Iris' meeting with who she assumes is her close friend `Val,' but whom she quickly discovers, is not Val but her twin sister `Vickie.' Upon closer inspection she realizes that not only is this not her somewhat bohemian, free-spirited friend Val, but that Vickie is about as opposite as possible. The difference is evident and amazing as well. Vickie is the pink, page boy, twin cardigan counterpart of her sister and as Iris is pondering how two women can look so much alike, yet be so different, Vickie drops a bombshell in her lap in the form of the statement "... my husband is cheating...again!" Upon the appearance of Val and the desperate need of Iris, a newly-separated woman who is jobless to boot, to pay her rent, she is swept up into becoming Vickie's personal private investigator. Her job is simple.....find out if Vickie's husband Steve is in fact cheating on her and if he is, find out WHO the woman is.

Iris, being the complex woman that she is, finds this task easier said than done, when she meets, greets and literally runs into Steve. As if Iris' bewilderment can't become any worse, she soon finds herself inexplicably drawn to Steve romantically. When she finally confesses to Steve that she is in fact spying for Vickie, he agrees to try to help Vickie save her marriage. As this thrust-together duo agree to meet periodically throughout the book, the bewilderment of Iris at the turn of events, the emerging emotions and the growing relationship all add up to a surprising end that the reader finds not only satisfying but amusing as well. This book is written in such a lighthearted manner that the story of Iris, her new thrust-upon profession and the characters she encounters will leave the reader alternatively rolling with laughter or shaking ones head in dismay at the turn of the events within its pages. It is a great light read for anyone looking for something to take the edge off the seriousness of life.

I would highly recommend "It's About Your Husband" to any and all adult age readers who are looking for a good laugh, a light story with a twist and engaging characters as well. Lauren Lipton has a fantastic character in Iris and her personification of Iris and Steve are priceless. This is a book well worth searching the shelves for. It would make a great gift for a friend or co-worker. It is the type of book women laugh over and men shake their heads in dismay over the confusion within.