Best Staged Plans

Claire Cook

Thorndike Press, 2011 - Fiction - 369 pages

As a professional home stager, Sandy Sullivan is an expert at transforming cluttered rooms into attractive houses ready for sale. If only reinventing her life were as easy as choosing the perfect paint color. She's eager to put her family's suburban Boston home on the market, to downsize, and to simplify her own life. But she must first deal with her foot-dragging husband and her grown son, who has moved back home after college to inhabit the basement "bat cave."



After reading them the riot act, Sandy takes a job staging a boutique hotel in Atlanta recently acquired by her best friend's boyfriend. The good news is that she can spend time with her recently married daughter, Shannon, in Atlanta. The bad news is that Shannon finds herself heading to Boston for job training, leaving Sandy and her southern son-in-law, Chance, as reluctant roommates. If that's not complicated enough, Sandy begins to suspect that her best friend's boyfriend may be seeing another woman on the side.



Filled with characters who are fresh and original, yet recognizable enough to live in your neighborhood--plus plenty of great tips and tricks for fixing up houses, and lives--this is a wise and witty story of letting go and moving on. Best Staged Plans is Claire Cook at her most humorous and heartfelt.

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Review: Best Staged Plans

User Review  - Lydia Laceby - Goodreads

Originally Reviewed at Novel Escapes I really enjoyed this novel. It was easy to read with warm characters, snappy dialogue and a story line I found interesting and somehow relatable, even without ...

Review: Best Staged Plans

User Review - Goodreads

Well, I like a nice cozy book, just right for reading when life is more difficult than usual, but I got much more than I imagined possible in Best Staged Plans. I can thank Claire Cook for her gentle ...

About the author

A teacher of physical fitness and creative writing, Claire Cook has had previous stints as a copywriter, radio continuity director, garden designer, and dance choreographer. She lives in Scituate, Massachusetts, with her husband and two children.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Best Staged Plans; Thorndike Core; Thorndike Press Large Print Core Series
• Author: Claire Cook
• Edition: large print
• Publisher: Thorndike Press, 2011
• ISBN: 1410440966, 9781410440969
• Length: 369 pages
• Subjects: Fiction / Contemporary Women; Fiction / Family Life; Fiction / General; Fiction / Humorous; Fiction / Romance / General