Namely: Seth, Lady’s gangly but handsome 18-year-old son from her first marriage. “It was like a makeover in reverse: After and Before.”įor one, S’s boozy-turned-floozy behavior starts to attraction attention.
Her latest performance project involves getting wasted and secretly pretending to be her alcoholic mother when she was S’s age (and also a nanny) to see what comes of it. S, it turns out, is an artist - and not just any artist, but an impersonator. This, of course, is where things get slightly more complicated - and interesting. As if shlubbiness is somehow a measure of trustworthiness, Lady hires S on the spot, without even a reference check. When the makeup-less 22-year-old shows up at Lady’s door for an interview, S immediately hits it off with 2-year-old Devin, Lady’s child during her second marriage. Lady’s not the only one in those mini-mansion-studded hills pulling a fast one. Instead, she’s hiding not just one secret beneath her cool facade, but a mountain of them, and the deceit and lack of control is slowly breaking her apart. After her essay in Real Simple about the strains of parenting a mute child went viral, she landed a lucrative book contract to spill more about the experience.īut what becomes immediately apparent is that Lady isn’t as coiffed as she appears to be - or loose-lipped. She’s slimmish, attractive (though losing her youthful glow now that she is past 40, to her daily disappointment), and flawlessly confident. There’s some meat on this bone - trust me.Īt first glance, Lady Daniels is what one might expect from a lady-who-lunches L.A. But if you dismiss taking a gander because you’ve “read all that before,” you’d be making a mistake.
On the surface, Edan Lepucki’s third novel, “Woman No.
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