HOPE IN A JAR

A friend breakup is healed at a twentieth high school reunion in this women''s fiction novel that is as slick and enjoyable as a brand-new tube of lip gloss (People).Twenty years ago Allie Denty was the pretty one and her best friend Olivia Pelham was the smart one. Throughout high school they were inseparable . . . until a vicious rumor about Olivia—a rumor too close to the truth—ended their friendship.Now on the eve of their twentieth high school reunion Allie a temp worker finds herself suddenly single a little chubby and feeling old. Olivia a cool and successful magazine beauty editor in New York realizes she''s lonely and is finally ready to face her demons.Sometimes hope lives in the future; sometimes it comes from the past; and sometimes when every stupid thing goes wrong it comes from a prettily packaged jar filled with scented cream and promises.New York Times–bestselling author Beth Harbison has done it again. A hilarious and touching novel about friendship Love''s Baby Soft perfume Watermelon Lip Smackers bad run-ins with Sun-In and the healing power of Gee Your Hair Smells Terrific. Hope in a Jar: we all need it.Harbison continues to wow readers with charm and genuine characters. —BooklistHarbison creates vivid convincing characters and handles them well. —Publishers Weekly