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Title: Dreadful
Review: I couldn't stop listening to this audio CD the way you can't look away from a car crash. Morbid curiosity. My eyes hurt from rolling so often at this jellyfish of a main character.Betta is supposed to be portrayed as a fragile widow, but she just ends up looking incredibly self-absorbed and weak, weak, weak. I can't reconcile her weeping over the perfect husband every five minutes with her late-night behavior with Tom Bartlett. It just wasn't believable.Elizabeth Berg has created such real characters, such as Samantha from "Open House" and Myra from "Never Change." Their lives were believable, funny, and wistful at the same time. I can't understand how Betta Nolan was created by the same author.The character of her husband was so non-believable that I don't know where to start. "Welcome to Tuesday, Betta"?????And P.S., many women living in small factory towns in the Midwest can ill-afford cashmere robes, fountain pens, silk pajamas and bird's nests.
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