"Light, funny and engaging story."

By: Megan Crane

Genres: Contemporary Chick Lit

Posted: October 19, 2005

Meredith McKay (aka "Saint Meredith") was the good girl growing up in her New Jersey family of five. Now she lives in Atlanta with her southern boyfriend, Travis. Family dynamics rarely change, and older brother Christian and younger sister Hope still play the roles of playboy and spoiled brat, respectively.

When Meredith comes home for her former best friend Jeannie's bachelorette party and upcoming marriage to Christian, things seem normal. Everyone behaves just as they always have. Her father hides in the basement with his clipboards of instructions for breeding fish, and her mother, the martyr, leaves for a well-deserved six-week overseas trip with her sister.

The worry begins when her usually punctual father doesn't show up for dinner after dropping mom at the airport. Hours later, the phone rings, and he's broken a leg. Instead of worrying mom, Meredith agrees to stay in New Jersey for the summer to nurse her incapacitated father.

Through a series of family frustrations, heated meetings with a now-sexy Scott Sheridan, and 10-year-old unresolved arguments with her former best friend, Meredith realizes both what she hasn't yet learned and how far she's come.

EVERYONE ELSE'S GIRL is a snappy read and follows Crane's well-received first book, ENGLISH IS A SECOND LANGUAGE. This is one you should read if you want a light, funny, engaging novel.

Book Summary

Meredith McKay has gone to a lot of trouble to create the picture-perfect life for herself - far away from her troublesome family, thank you. When her father's car accident forces her back to her hometown, however, she soon discovers that there's no running away from family issues - there's only delaying the inevitable. Can anyone sort out a lifetime of drama in one hot summer? Throw in a hot guy from back in high school with an ax to grind, a best friend turned enemy turned soon-to-be-sister-in-law, and of course, the sometimes irritating, sometimes delightful members of her own family, and Meredith is on her way to figuring out that a trip through the past is the best way to move forward. With one revelation after another coming to light, Meredith must reexamine all the things she's ever believed, including the truth about herself. Could it be that she isn't the picture-perfect good girl she always thought she was?

Everyone Else's Girl by Megan Crane

Everyone Else's Girl

by: Megan Crane

Warner 5 Spot
October 21, 2005
Featuring: Scott Sheridan; Meredith McKay
272 pages
ISBN: 0446694339
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