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The divorce papers : a novel from the files of Sophie Diehl, Esq. / Susan Rieger.
"The story of a high-profile, messy divorce, and the endearingly cynical young lawyer dragooned into handling it, told solely via personal correspondence, office memos, emails, articles, and legal papers"--Provided by publisher.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780804137447 (hardcover) :
- Physical Description: 461 pages ; 25 cm
- Edition: First edition.
- Publisher: New York : Crown Publishers, [2014]
- Copyright: ©2014
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| Subject: | Divorce settlements > Fiction. Divorce > Fiction. Domestic relations > Fiction. Women lawyers > Fiction. |
| Genre: | Domestic fiction. Epistolatory fiction. Legal stories. |
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- 1 of 1 copy available at Tsuga Consortium.
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- Baker & Taylor
"The story of a high-profile, messy divorce, and the endearingly cynical young lawyer dragooned into handling it, told solely via personal correspondence, office memos, emails, articles, and legal papers"-- - Baker & Taylor
A romantic comedy told through emails, letters, transcripts and articles follows a lively divorce through the eyes of cynical young law associate Sophie Diehl, who represents a humiliated woman throughout a separation from an ambitious doctor husband. A first novel. 70,000 first printing. - Baker & Taylor
A romantic comedy told through emails, letters, transcripts, and articles follows a lively divorce through the eyes of cynical young law associate Sophie Diehl, who represents a humiliated woman throughout a separation from her ambitious doctor husband. - Random House, Inc.
Sparkling and sophisticated, this sometimes hilarious, sometimes heartbreaking debut novel tells the story of a very messy, very high-profile divorce and the endearingly cynical young lawyer dragooned into handling it.
Twenty-nine-year-old Sophie Diehl is happy toiling away as a criminal law associate at an old-line New England firm, where she very much appreciates that most of her clients are trapped behind bars. Everyone at Traynor, Hand knows she abhors face-to-face contact, but one week, with all the big partners out of town, Sophie is stuck handling the intake interview for the daughter of the firmâs most important client.
After eighteen years of marriage, Mayflower descendant Mia Meiklejohn Durkheim has just been served divorce papers in a humiliating scene at the popular local restaurant, Golightlyâs. Mia is now locked and loaded to fight her eminent and ambitious husband, Dr. Daniel Durkheim, Chief of the Department of Pediatric Oncology at Mather Medical School, for custody of their ten-year-old daughter Jane. Mia also burns to take him down a peg. Sophie warns Mia that sheâs never handled a divorce case before, but Mia canât be put off. The way she sees it, itâs her first divorce, too. For Sophie, the whole affair will spark a hard look at her own relationshipsâwith her parents, colleagues, friends, lovers, and, most important, herself.
A rich, layered novel told entirely through personal correspondence, office memos, e-mails, articles, handwritten notes, and legal documents,The Divorce Papers offers a direct window into the lives of an entertaining cast of characters never shy about speaking their minds. Original and captivating, Susan Riegerâs brilliantly conceived and expertly crafted debut races along with wit, heartache, and exceptional comedic timing, as it explores the complicated family dynamic that results when marriage failsâas well as the ever-present risks and coveted rewards of that thing called love.
