title: The Bright Side of Disaster: A Novel
author:  Katherine Center 
description: <span>"Novels as polished and mature as</span><i>The Bright Side of Disaster</i><span>just don't come along very often from first-time novelists or, for that matter, from those with much longer rsums. . . . This story of a youthful-but-optimistic single mom rings bittersweet and utterly authentic."</span><br /><i>-The Dallas Morning News</i>
zlib_text: ALSO BY JAMIE McGUIRE
  Beautiful Disaster
  Walking Disaster
  Red Hill
  A Beautiful Wedding
  
  First published in Great Britain by Simon & Schuster UK Ltd, 2014
  A CBS COMPANY
  Copyright © Jamie McGuire 2014
  This book is copyright under the Berne Convention.
  No reproduction without permission.
  ® and © 1997 Simon & Schuster Inc. All rights reserved.
  The right of Jamie McGuire to be identified as author of this work has been asserted in accordance with sections 77 and 78 of the
  Copyright, Designs and Patents Act, 1988.
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  Paperback ISBN: 978-1-47113-352-7
  EBOOK ISBN: 978-1-47113-353-4
  This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places and incidents are either a product of the author’s imagination or are used
  fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual people l