Younger

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Simon and Schuster, Jul 5, 2005 - Fiction - 384 pages
A story of inspiration and transformation for every woman who’s tried to change her life by changing herself—now a hit TV series from the creator of Sex and the City starring Sutton Foster and Hilary Duff.

She wants to start a new life.

Alice is trying to return to her career in publishing after raising her only child. But the workplace is less than welcoming to a forty-something mom whose resume is covered with fifteen years of dust.

If Alice were younger, she knows, she’d get hired in a New York minute. So, if age is just a number, why not become younger? Or at least fake it. With help from her artist friend Maggie, Alice transforms herself into a faux millennial and soon finds an assistant’s job, a twenty-something bff, and a hot young boyfriend, Josh, who was in diapers when Alice was in high school.

You’re only as young as you feel.

Alice is too thrilled with her new relationship and career to worry about the fallout from her lie. But when Maggie decides she wants a baby, Alice’s daughter comes home early from studying abroad, and Alice finds herself falling in love with Josh, she realizes her masquerade has serious consequences, especially for her.

Can Alice turn the magic into her real life? Or will the truth come out and break the spell?

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Contents

Section 1
1
Section 2
22
Section 3
33
Section 4
43
Section 5
61
Section 6
72
Section 7
88
Section 8
101
Section 14
170
Section 15
186
Section 16
201
Section 17
210
Section 18
219
Section 19
227
Section 20
239
Section 21
250

Section 9
118
Section 10
128
Section 11
141
Section 12
151
Section 13
161
Section 22
264
Section 23
272
Section 24
285
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About the author (2005)

Pamela Redmond is the New York Times bestselling author of more than twenty works of fiction and nonfiction, including Younger, How Not to Act Old, and 30 Things Every Woman Should Have & Should Know. She started publishing novels, cofounded the world’s largest baby name website Nameberry, got divorced, moved from New Jersey to Los Angeles, and changed her name, all after the age of fifty. The mother of three and grandmother of one, Redmond’s website is at PamelaRedmond.com.

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