Dancing naked

Today I read a book called 'Dancing Naked at the Edge of Dawn'. It is one of the best books I have ever read. I found the story fascinating - one of those 'I-couldn't-put-it-down' books - and very well written. I really did not know what was going to happen, and because of the level of the prose, enjoyed the journey of finding out.

Most importantly, it spoke to me in a personal, direct way that few books do, as much as I enjoy reading them. All through the narrative there were times when I had a gasp of recognition, a sense of familiarity with the heroine's thoughts and actions that was so comforting yet very revealing to me.

The story is, simply, of a woman whose husband cheats on her, and what she does with her life from that point on. The description of how she feels when her whole world shifts is so real, and her painful, step-by-step recovery is so sympathetically drawn, as are the female friends who support her.

It is a wonderful rallying cry for women to be strong and independent, a message that I think we need constant reminding about, or at least some of us do....

I was only a few pages into the book when I was planning to buy it for all my women friends and relatives for Christmas, an indication of my opinion of the book, although not perhaps a very practical one.

And part of the attraction is that one of the locations for her story is in Mexico, in the Mayan Peninsula, an area that I love deeply. The woman, Meg, ends up with a house in Mexico, on the water, and of course that is one of my deepest-held dreams, to be on the water in Mexico.....

The book is 'Dancing Naked at the Edge of Dawn' and the author is Kris Radish.

From the bestselling author of The Elegant Gathering of White Snows comes a poignant, outrageous, refreshingly liberating story about one woman whose life takes an unexpected turn…

Meg Fratano has just witnessed the unthinkable: her husband of twenty-seven years making love to another woman. In her bed. And all Meg wanted to do was watch. Quietly, secretly, watch. Then she realized her life would never be the same.

Meg isn’t sure what she wants, but she knows it’s not what she had. After almost three decades of marriage and two children, she has finally awakened to how unhappy she is.

Now, with the help of friends old and new, and even her teenage daughter—a former brat who has blossomed into a startlingly wise young woman—Meg just might break through the chains of everyone’s expectations for her and find the strength to take the first step on her own path. To strip away a lifetime of inhibitions. To dance naked at the edge of dawn…