Still Life with Elephant: A Novel

Authors: Singer, Judy Reene
Publisher: HarperCollins e-books
BISAC/Subject: FIC045010, FIC044000, FIC067000
ISBN: 9780061893667, Related ISBNs: 0061893668, 9780061713750, 9780061893667
Classification: Non-Fiction
Number of pages: 304,
Audience: General/trade
Synopsis:

“Brimming with humor and hope, Still Life’s a charmer.”
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The way to a cheating man's heart is through . . . an elephant?

Professional horse trainer Neelie Sterling somehow missed the fact that her veterinarian husband, Matt, was having an affair with his blonde, pretty business partner. Neelie often misses things. (When Matt originally told her he was getting a colleague to help with the practice, she thought he said collie—and Neelie likes dogs.) Now the blonde is saying she's pregnant, and Neelie's life is in a tailspin. But she sees an opportunity to patch up the holes in her disintegrating marriage when she learns that Matt is leaving for Zimbabwe to rescue a badly injured elephant. Foolishly optimistic, she joins the expedition.

On a dangerous, revealing, exhilarating trip through Africa, Neelie comes to learn a lot about herself as a woman and a wife. But it isn't until they return home with their pachyderm patient that her eyes are truly opened to what is going on around her. And with the help of a very large and very special animal, she may even discover how to love again.

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