There is a reason the cliche is so popular. Obviously, a lot of women can relate to the "middle aged women getting stronger through a crisis" sort of thing.But this book was just so bad! Really poorly written, full of stereotypes, and so predictable. It read as though she were already planning the made for tv movie on the Lifetime channel. Just overly sappy, overly melodramatic. And why is it that in all these books, the women are of a certain sort of financial background? Do you want a real crisis? Try getting cancer and not being a successful attorney. Or cancer without even having insurance. Try leaving your husband and not being super wealthy. It's easy to have tidy endings when the characters don't face realistic problems.