Book Review: Not Perfect

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This is my book review of Not Perfect by Elizabeth LaBan.

Book Summary:

Tabitha Brewer wakes up one morning to find her husband gone. She has no way to support herself and their two children in the upscale Philadelphia lifestyle to which they are accustomed.

She can’t tell her friends what has happened because her husband left her a mysterious warning: “I’ll tell them what you did.”

Tabitha tries to keep up appearances as the months pass, but she can barely feed her children.

She resorts to stealing things like toilet paper because she’s gone through all the money, and her husband no longer deposits any into their account.

While Tabitha looks for a job, she lives in fear that someone will see her stuffing toilet paper into her handbag or pinching basil from a neighbor’s window box.

But secrets often have a way of getting out. And she fears her world will implode once it does.

Then a kind stranger takes an interest in Tabitha. Soon, blindsided by catastrophe, surprised by romance, and stunned by the kindness of a stranger, Tabitha realizes she can’t keep her secrets forever. Sooner or later, someone is bound to figure out that her life is far from perfect.

My Review:

I truly enjoyed reading this book. It was both sad and funny.

It is a good women’s fiction read about the circumstances women sometimes find themselves in through no fault of their own.

About The Author:

Elizabeth LaBan lives in Philadelphia with her restaurant critic husband and two children.

She is a freelance writer and editor whose work has appeared in The Philadelphia Inquirer, New York Newsday, and The Times-Picayune, among other publications. She also ghostwrites a weekly column and has ghostwritten two books.

She has a master’s in journalism from Columbia University and a bachelor’s in English from Trinity College in Hartford.

Elizabeth was an NBC Page, worked at NBC News in New York, taught journalism at a community college in New Orleans, and was a reporter at several small-to-mid-sized newspapers, including The Riverdale Press, before she began writing books.