Real Women Eat Beef: A Coming-Of-Middle-Age Story

New and improved -- now with added goats! . Welcome to advertising executive Jill Campbells life version 2.0. Gone are the cheating ex-husband and the chaos of New York. Brand-new features include a prestigious job at a Boston ad agency a stronger father-daughter relationship and a gorgeous old farmhouse. Its bliss -- until a snazzy car account evaporates leaving her branding...beef. Un-snazzy un-sexy beef -- which she hasnt eaten in twenty years. Talk about false advertising. Owning a two-hundred-year-old house in a one-store hamlet is not the nirvana Jill imagined even with the addition of a dog two needy goats and unexpected encounters with the towns most eligible -- and probably only -- bachelor. . Peace of mind sold separately. . Wondering how she sold herself on this new existence Jill forms an unlikely bond with Sarah Watson a feisty twelve-year-old with an aversion to training bras makeup and all the trappings that supposedly make sixth grade worthwhile. While Sarah teaches Jill the basics of home maintenance and animal husbandry Jill helps Sarah deal with impending womanhood. And as men start to complicate matters every idea Jill ever had about love and advertising gets turned on its head. Suddenly her life looks nothing like the picture on the box but it could turn out to be exactly what she didnt know she needed.