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Janie Ligon's Revenge
Paperback
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Apr 23 2024
Pages: 254
Weight: 0.76
Height: 0.53 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
It's 1995. The internet is about to transform society. Janie Ligon seeks a similar career transformation now that she is Levi Strauss's General Manager for the United Kingdom. She never anticipates the distraction caused by her perfect husband of twenty-four years suddenly seeking a divorce. Janie refuses to become either a punch line or the stereotype of the middle-aged woman replaced by the trophy wife. When she cannot convince Samuel to stay, she believes his betrayal justifies her revenge. Meanwhile, Samuel believes he is experiencing true love for the first time in his life.
Excerpts from Indie Reader Review
Excerpts from Book Life Review
This brisk novel of divorce and vengeance finds Janie Ligon, an American executive working in the UK, facing the end of her marriage and finding herself consumed, at the start of a tricky divorce, by anger and a desire for retribution against Samuel, her husband of 24 years.
Levin sets this story of a woman scorned in the mind 1990s, the dawn of the digital era, when E-mail was a novelty few used, at least in England. Samuel's correspondence with Alison is old-school, letters in which the pair address each other with real yearning. Chapters from Janie's perspective pulse with justified bitterness, creating a tense, engaging contrast that powers the plot. Deep concerns of reputation, deftly captured by Levin, motivate both leads throughout, which makes the muted reaction to the breakup from daughter Hannah a telling, relatable detail. Despite the title and the power of Janie's anger, the letters and the love story overshadow the story's most compelling element: Janie's rage at betrayal. Takeaway: Human story of love, betrayal and retribution, at the dawn of the digital era.Also in
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