Until The Real Thing Comes Along by Elizabeth Berg

And the transcendence that redeems.' And the same will be said about Until the Real Thing Comes Along. Patty longs more and more for the consolation of loving and being loved, but for the moment feels she must content herself with waiting-until she can wait no more.Īndre Dubus said about Elizabeth Berg's Durable Goods, 'Elizabeth Berg writes with humor and a big heart about resilience, loneliness, love and hope. Kindle 13.99 Rate this book Until The Real Thing Comes Along Elizabeth Berg 3.57 5,096 ratings365 reviews Patty Murphy is facing that pivotal point in a woman's life when her biological clock ticks as insistently as a beating heart. Patty's frustration leads her to feelings she doesn't admire-jealousy of her beautiful best friend, Elaine, for instance, about whom she says, 'Find me one woman who doesn't withhold just a bit from another woman who looks like that.' She's also worried about her mother, with whom she's very close but who is beginning to act strangely. Ethan seems perfect for Patty-handsome, generous, and sensitive-but he's hopelessly unavailable. Listen Free to Until the Real Thing Comes Along: A Novel audiobook by Elizabeth Berg with a 30 Day Free Trial Stream and download audiobooks to your. Rarely the bridesmaid, never mind the bride, Patty sells houses for a living (well, she's sold one house so far), longs to be married and have a family, but is irresistibly drawn to the wrong man. Reading Elizabeth Berg is like having a friend sit down and talk with you about the deepest truths and most perplexing issues in life, and in this exquisite new novel the bestselling author of Talk Before Sleep and The Pull of the Moon once again gives us superb fiction about a passionate woman who solves life's problems in a way that is far from traditional, but close to the wise dictums of the heart. What do you do when your life isn't living up to your dreams? When the man you love is unavailable, and yet you long for a family, a home? What is the cost of compromising until the real thing comes along?

Until The Real Thing Comes Along by Elizabeth Berg