Romance for a married woman with children?  by accidental author Meredith Cagen

Comedic Biting NYC Social Commentary Novel:  Size Eight in a Size Zero World

Love or Loyalty?  Lust or Loneliness?

Life seemed perfect until she met him in the elevator of her Upper East Side luxury high rise building.  She affectionately refers to him as “The Man Upstairs.” Like many females, Lindsay Chandler has everything she thought she ever wanted:  Handsome attorney husband, two healthy children, job with flexibility, beautiful New York City home, and friends.

Imagine after 10 years of marriage, this multi-tasking phenom starts to revolt against her status quo.  Fed up being surrounded by double processed pampered size zero Manhattan socialites at her children’s schools and ignored by her husband. This disgruntled working wife and mother develops s romantic crush on The Man Upstairs.  He is the perfect man.  Ah, if only that was true.

Can a girl who enjoy cheeseburgers with fries find happiness in a fulfilling relationship?

In the tradition of Sex and the City, Bridget Jones’s Diary, The Ivy Chronicles, and The Devil Wears Prada, Size Eight in a Size Zero World, is a modern-day story of a good girl who is trying to do the right thing while remaining true to herself.

About The Author

“This is a fictional story but based in my reality as an Upper East Side working wife and mother. Living in Manhattan I am surrounded by seemingly picture perfect double-processed blonde women in designer clothes with honor roll children, indulgent husbands leading extraordinary lives. These days the pressure on women to be perfect, comes from all directions.  No one fat is ever photographed seriously for Page Six. Does having it all mean you give up your uniqueness?”

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Media Contact

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Meredith Cagen 212 289-2880

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Ears by Lehel Vandor is a memoir freshly published by Legend Press in the United Kingdom.

It is a personal journey of a Transylvanian Hungarian ethnic child of Ceausescu’s dark `70s, a teenager during the suffocating Romanian `80s, a student during the surreal `90s and an emigrant of recent years.

His journey from a world that Kafka imagined, but Ceausescu created, to a society that still fights with numerous ghosts also reveals unexpected parallels between that past totalitarianism and the disturbing transformations of his recently adopted home.

It combines the recollections of a child’s personal experiences with the subtle humour of the reminiscing adult, genuine literary craftsmanship, a gentle lyrical tone of remarkable restraint even when writing about everyday experiences one can’t even imagine to live through once.

On the other hand, it is not just a memoir of years spent during an infamous totalitarian regime – it is also a sensitive and deeply observant description of the many unexpectedly dark changes that came after the optimism that followed the Romanian Revolution of 1989.

It is a tableau of a society going through the most disorienting tectonic shifts, seen from `street level’ and in the final chapters there are revelatory parallels drawn between the author’s former and his later adopted home.

Whether the dumbing down and exquisite propaganda tactics are used by a communist dictator or, years and miles apart, a free democratic country’s government seeing itself in the second line of a so-called `War on Terror’, it becomes evident: the context and details may differ in certain methods used by radically different powers, but the essence and intent of those classic methods can be remarkably similar.

It also gives the reader the opportunity to follow the cognitive journey of a person who gradually discovers the shadier side of the things everybody craved during the communist regime: the wonders of consumerism, the apparent total freedom of speech and press, freedom of thought being streamlined into few narrow mainstream trends…

ISBN-13: 978-1849231589, available from Amazon, Barnes & Noble and other major book retailers.