Mad Dash; a novel

New York: Shaye Areheart Books, 2007. First Edition [Stated], First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. Very good/Good. [6], 255, [7] pages. Inscribed by author on title-page. DJ has some edgewear. Patricia Gaffney is an American writer of romance novels and women's fiction novels. Patricia Gaffney was born on December 27, 1956 in Tampa, Florida. Patricia graduated from Walter Johnson High School. She earned a bachelor's degree in English and Philosophy from Marymount College in Tarrytown, New York, and also studied literature at the Royal Holloway College at the University of London, at George Washington University, and at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. After college, Gaffney taught high school English for a year before pursuing a career as a freelance reporter for the next five years. In 1984, Gaffney was diagnosed with breast cancer, which prompted her to live out her dream of writing books and living in the country. The poor thing was cold and trembling, abandoned on their front doorstep. Dash, impulsive as always, decides on the spot that they should keep it. But her husband, Andrew, thinks it's the craziest thing he's ever heard. A fight over a scruffy little dog doesn't seem like much of a reason to walk out on your husband of twenty years-but the spat over the puppy is just the last of many straws. Dash is so tired of the faculty parties at Mason-Dixon College that Andrew insists they attend even though he won't mingle with his colleagues, tired of the glass of warm milk he must have every night before bed. Why can't he see that with her mother gone and their daughter off at college, Dash needs something more? Now, living on her own for the first time in years, Dash can do whatever she wants . . . if only she could figure out what that is. But every time she starts making plans for the future, she finds herself thinking about the past-remembering the mother she's lost, her daughter's childhood, and the husband she isn't entirely sure she wants to leave behind. By turns poignant and hilarious-often on the same page-Mad Dash is a novel about the funny ways love has of catching up to us despite our most irrational efforts to leave it behind.