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A Woman's Place | 
 enlarge | Author: Barbara Delinsky
Publisher: Avon
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  17 reviews
Sales Rank: 101130
Media: Mass Market Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 405
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 6.6 x 4.1 x 1.2
ISBN: 0061095052
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN: 9780061095054
ASIN: 0061095052
Publication Date: February 1, 1998
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Everything Claire Raphael has she's earned. On her own. The hard way. She built her part-time business up from nothing and made it successful through her imagination, creativity and hard work. She has two great children and Dennis, a husband she loves completely. Then, one evening, when Claire returns from a difficult business trip, Dennis hands her divorce papers along with a court order to vacate their house. And he's taking custody of the children. Claire is devestated. She had no idea her marriage was on the brink of disaster, that Dennis had been planning this ambush for weeks, if not months or that her hectic but happy life was about to come crumbling down around her. Claire doesn't know where to turn or whom to trust. But in a few short weeks she learns what so many women have had to discover -- that when the going gets tough, a woman's as tough as she needs to be..
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 An Angry Woman September 3, 2007
This book was written by an angry person. That was the impression I received from reading it. I also thought the woman was treated unfairly by the courts and her husband. I am happy to hear it all worked out in the end for everyone.
 frustrating! July 4, 2006
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
I picked up three BD novels from the library and have read them in a space of 1.5 weeks...a tribute to her writing. Yet, try as I might I simply dont find her characters fully developed or believable. Dennis, Claires' husband is a total ogre..but somewhere towards the end there is a subltle shift in depiction. We see shades of sensitivity in him (ending up in joint custody) and feel frustrated as to why we didnt get a better insight into his feelings about why the marriage failed. we get some hints in passing when Claire admits that she may have been too controlling but I wish this theme had been expolored more. This has been my main complaint about her books so far: she TRIES to appear balanced without giving the reader enough material to judge themselves. I understand this is woman's fiction but she always has her male characters less than fully developed...it wouldnt matter if they (like Dennis) werent so central to the book.
And for some reason that baffles me, I simply dont identify or fully sympathesize with any of her heroines, even though the author throws every possible misery at her in this book....it could be because of the missing pieces that I mentioned above.
I think I am giving up on her novels for now.
Written well enough, but mediocre June 15, 2005
1 out of 3 found this review helpful
Self-made successful heroine is the owner of a chain of basket stores, happily married (she thinks) with 2 young children. Her world falls apart when her husband files for divorce, tries to milk her for all she has and take custody of the kids too. See how strong woman picks herself up and conquers all. Usual stuff. Written well enough, but an old plot with nothing spectacular to lift it up from mediocrity. One point it its favor, I was able to finish the book. They are not bad, but I don't collect Delinskys.
One of my favorite Delinsky novels June 13, 2005
11 out of 12 found this review helpful
A WOMAN'S PLACE by Barbara Delinsky
June 12, 2005
Rating 4/5 stars
A WOMAN'S PLACE by Barbara Delinsky is the story about a woman who finds herself kicked out of her house and not allowed to see her own children, due to the lies of her jerk of a husband. The narrator is Claire Raphael, and she's a successful business owner who earns about five times more than her husband does. It never bothered her that she made more money than her husband did. She loved him unconditionally.
Unfortunately, because she was so absorbed in her job and her children, she failed to see that Dennis was starting to resent her success. After she returns from a trip to visit her ailing mother, she finds that he has filed for divorce and has taken custody of the kids and kicked her out of the house. She has no where to go, except to her best friend and business partner, Brody. Unfortunately, one of the things Dennis has accused her of is infidelity and he claims she has been sleeping with Brody, which is not true at all. Claire has no idea how to fight back, since Dennis is telling all sorts of lies about her and the judge has taken his side.
I have to say this is one of my favorite books by Delinsky so far. The plot was well-developed, making it a fast read with so much going on - Claire's issue with her own family (sibling rivalry and a mother that has only seen Claire as the good daughter), Claire's need to be with her children, and finally the demise of her marriage. The reader will watch as Claire goes through the legal motions to get her life back, and with the help of a lawyer who actually cares (as opposed to the judge who seems to think all women belong barefoot and pregnant), Claire fights for what belongs to her. Some may see this as a somewhat soap-opera-ish type of novel, but I found myself wanting to read this in one sitting and wishing Claire could find a way to fight back against her husband.
Not the best, definitely not the worst I've read March 19, 2005
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
The premise is not terribly original, but Delinsky does a good job with it, weaving a realistic tale of a woman who finds herself turned out of her own home without her children. It was the realism of the plot that captured and held my attention. Definitely not an action-packed plot...this roller coaster is an emotional one. This is a book about the punches life can throw, about learning to examine one's own frailties, about growth and maturity. All in all, a pretty satisfying read.
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