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    No One Could Have Guessed the Weather

    Written by Anne-Marie Casey

    Narrated by Elizabeth Sastre

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    About this audiobook

    Sometimes what you want in your twenties isn't what you want or need in your forties. . . .

    When Lucy Lovett's husband loses his job, she is forced to give up her posh life in London and move their family to a tiny apartment in Manhattan, where her husband has managed to secure a lowly position. Lucy finds herself living in the center of cool and hip. Across from their apartment is a trendy bar called PDT--whenever Lucy passes by, she thinks, Please don't tell anyone I'm a middle-aged woman.

    Homesick and resentful at first, Lucy soon embarks on the love affair of her life--no, not with her husband (though they're both immensely relieved to discover they do love each other for richer or poorer), but with New York City and the three women who befriend her.

    There's Julia, who is basically branded with a Scarlet A when she leaves her husband and kids for a mini nervous breakdown and a room of her own; Christy, a much older man's trophy wife, who is a bit adrift as only those who live high up in penthouses can be; and disheveled and harried Robyn, constantly compensating for her husband, who can't seem to make the transition from wunderkind to adult.

    Spot-on observant, laugh-out-loud funny, yet laced with kindness through and through, No One Could Have Guessed the Weather is a story of what happens when you grow up and realize the middle part of your story might just be your beginning.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPenguin Random House Audio
    Release dateJun 13, 2013
    ISBN9781101620793
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    • 4/5
      Yummy and not-so yummy mummies who meet at the primary school gates in NYC. The linking character between the four women is an Englishwoman now living in New York. Good quality chick-lit.
    • 3/5
      A british woman's husband tells her he has lost their fortune in the economy and the family must move to New York City so he can take a much lower paying job. The story follows the lives of the people she meets at her sons school and her neighbors. I found it a but confusing at times to keep the characters straight.
    • 1/5
      I have been unable to get into this book. Find I sit down and read a few pages and then walk away for long periods of time. At page 70 the book has just started to give the back story to a second character, much less explore the relationships between the characters. Setting it down one last time.
    • 2/5
      I do not feel like the cover description told the same story as the inside of the book. I could not tell if all the characters were English at times. Each character had the same voice in my head. I liked the book at the end. The set up of the characters left a little to be desired. The introduction of new people felt fragmented at times. From the cover, I felt like I was gong to laugh and cry with these women. I did not really laugh at any part of the book. I felt like I was going to identify with at least a couple characters. I did not feel like I was part of the group. I did begin to like the book close to the end. I might read another story from this author. I will hope that the future stories will be set in England or somewhere other than New York. Thank you for allowing me to be an Early Reviewer of this book.
    • 4/5
      A novel of four fortyish women in New York City, where they begin and nurture friendships that spring from nebulous connections. Lucy is an unwilling transplant from a posh life in London, whose husband lost his high-paid position and was forced to take a lowly job in Manhattan. Julia is a driven TV writer who solves the impossible demands of her life by moving out from her husband and kids. Christy is the trophy wife of an older multi-millionaire. Robyn is struggling to support her writer husband, who can't seem to get beyond the one book of stories he had published years ago that sold 800 copies, 100 of them to family and friends. The women are all dissatisfied with their lives for different reasons, and occasionally unsympathetic. But by the end of the book, they have forged some lines of friendship and support, and a novel that began as a series of disjointed and sometimes confusing vignettes of separate lives has resolved in a satisfying affirmation of friendship and lives shared.
    • 2/5
      This is a story involving four women in their 40s who appear to each be having a mid-life crisis of some sort. The story seems to jump around and then move to involve them all and their friendships, or lack thereof. There was just nothing really to keep the reader's interest and I would not recommend this book. I do appreciate LibraryThing allowing me to read this book as an Early Reviewer.
    • 2/5
      This book is a cliche. Or rather, a whole host of cliches. The poor super rich women are bored with their lives and don't know how to adapt when the market tanks and they have to live "normal" lives. They don't feel fulfilled and have affairs or their husbands have affairs or they gossip about the affairs that are happening. I couldn't relate to any of the characters, ever. Also, the author kept using the British terms for things (i.e. jumper instead of sweater), even though the setting was NYC. This annoyed me more than it should have. It also took me a few chapters to understand how the characters related because each chapter jumped without any continuity.
    • 2/5
      I didn't much like these women enough to get involved with them. The plot had possibilities but didn't deliver. sorry
    • 3/5
      I thought the author wrote some really beautiful sentences but I just couldn't get into this book. I really had to push myself to finish the book. Normally, I will quit a book I dislike after 50 pages, but I kept going because A) the author really does write a nicely crafted sentence and B) I made a promise to write this review. I think I just didn't care enough about the characters. And these are my people too -- 40-something women who I normally love to read about! I believe a more-developed plot would've helped keep my interest from wandering.
    • 1/5
      I found "No One Could Have Guessed the Weather" incredibly hard to follow at first. This book tells the story of three women living in New York City who meet and become friends because their children go to the same school. They have similar backgrounds but are in different places in their lives now. The story is put together very loosely and I needed to practically draw a family tree to see how everyone was connected. There are too many characters thrown in without any sort of background - like when you meet someone for the first time and they start talking about their friend "Joe" without giving any context to how Joe is. If I didn't have to give a review for LTER program, there is no way I would have finished this book.
    • 3/5
      This the story of a group of women coming together at a particular time in New York City, and captures some highlights of city living, along with the kind of relationship issues women deal with as they start, raise, and leave families.Near the end, one character is taking a writing class, and provides some insight into how this work came together, I think. "If she wrote some stories about events in her life or the lives of women like and unlike her, it might turn into something. A book that she would buy at the airport, or waiting for a train, or read exhausted in bed, in the twenty minutes her body gave her before she sank into comatose sleep. . . .She noted down words to describe her feelings about New York . . .She cut out pictures from magazines and took photographs . . .She thought about sentences and how they might work together. . . . After three months, she gathered all her notes into one document, but before she could start she needed a title."I read this in short doses, interspersed with other books; it would be easier to follow in one go--read on a plane or at the beach, for example.
    • 2/5
      I'm not sure how I feel about this book. The beginning at ending was interesting, but the entire inbetween seemed like it was lacking focus, a storyline, something. It wasn't necessarily hard to READ, it was just hard to get into.
    • 2/5
      Good premise and promise, but ultimately not something I would recommend. The author, Anne-Marie Casey writes very well and quite engagingly, but the 'story' has very little to tell, and most of the characters never became 'real' to me. I would have liked to love this book!
    • 3/5
      No One Could Have Guessed the WeatherbyAnne-Marie CaseyMy very own "in a nutshell" summary...Four women with a rather fragile connection live out their not so happy lives in NYC.My thoughts after reading this book...I am on a roll with novels that take place in NYC! I truly enjoy them. This one is a story of women friends...each with heart aches or dysfunctions or adjustments within their lives that have to be made. It starts with Lucy...abruptly transported to NYC. We then meet Julia...who seems to have abandoned her old life. We meet Christy...married to an older wealthy man. And last we meet Robynne...sort of totally confused. What I loved about this book...I am not sure I loved this book but I did enjoy parts of it. Some of it was just too awkward for me...sort of out of my comfort zone.What I did not love...I really didn't love any of these women at all. They were all sort of unlikeable.Final thoughts...I wanted this to be a yummy book about women with a strong bond living their connected lives out in NYC. That's not exactly what I got. I didn't feel strongly about these characters and while parts of the book were absorbing...for me...something memorable just was not there.
    • 4/5
      This book is about life changes. It is all about how you deal with those changes, whether you let them break you or transform you into someone new. Lucy, used to living in the lap of luxury, is hurtled out of her comfortable shell when her husband loses his job. They move to a tiny apartment in Manhattan and she begins to not only fall in love with her family all over again, but she makes 3 new friends who are dealing with life changes of their own. You ride the ride with them as they make mistakes and learn from them, envy others and then realize that those they envy have problems of their own, and discover what it is that they really want out of life.
    • 5/5
      I loved this book, and I am sorry to see that it apparently did not reach a large audience. I found it witty and engaging. I'm afraid the title did not help its popularity as it is rather misleading and gives no hint what the book about.
    • 3/5
      NO ONE COULD HAVE GUESSED THE WEATHER had its good points and bad. I loved the story of the four women and the friendships they formed while they juggled the responsibilities of work, home, children, and the difficulties those duties encompassed. While Lucy struggles at first with the down-sizing of every aspect of her life, she is the one who is the strongest character. Julia, who is stressed out to the point of leaving home and family, works hard at figuring out how to make her life less demanding. Christy is a trophy wife to a much older man and has everything, but yet is not really happy with her marriage. Her husband uses his money to control her. Christy was definitely the weakest character. Robyn just works at getting by day by day, and becomes stronger with time. The link among these women is the commonality of their situations; the problems they face individually are the same. There was a lot of time spent developing the characters, which I normally love. However, Casey didn’t get into the plot until half way through the book. I kept waiting for the four women to connect and it just didn’t happen soon enough for me. I love reading and rarely find a book I don’t like, but I struggled to finish this one.
    • 3/5
      I asked myself what was it that made me request this book as I read the first few pages. And then “Everything changed because Courtney from upstairs turned thirty-nine and got a dog” and I was hooked.More or less, the classic following women who’s stories cross throughout the book, but by the end you will think “it might be true, but it doesn’t feel real”I had a little trouble at first keeping up with who’s who but it was all worth it for the ending.
    • 3/5
      Bit of a late review as my computer died (don't worry it was sudden and I do not believe it suffered much).I found “No One Could Have Guessed the Weather” by Anne Marie Casey to be not my type of book. It tells a story of the lives of several “New York” women as seen through their eyes. Of course, they are all different from each other in personality, tastes and their status (socially). The story seems rather typical (read it or seen it (movie/tv) before and the characters a bit snobby/elitist. Though I did finish the book, if I didn’t have to review it I would have set it down fairly quickly.
    • 1/5
      This disappointing read was disjointed, meandering and vague. The main characters were very tenuously connected and elicited no sympathy from me. Although the language and sentence structure was done very well, the book just failed to draw me in.
    • 2/5
      This novel had a lot of potential, but unfortunately, it just didn’t live up to it. The chapters are really short stories that are somewhat linked together, but the result is a disjointed collection. The novel might have been better with less narrative and more dialogue. I never felt that I got to know the three main female characters at all, let alone the men in their lives. I could not relate – or even like – any of them. The character development was shallow, or maybe the characters were just shallow, and that is what the author wanted to portray, in which case, she did a fine job. Without much of a plot or well-defined characters, there is not much left to say about the book. Although tags by others about this novel said things like “smart, funny, brilliant, clever, and savvy,” I just couldn’t see it.