Switcheroo

In her most ingenious, entertaining, and hilarious novel yet, the best-selling author of “The First Wives Club” tells a tale of a marriage, a mistress, and mayhem in a story that begs to be on the big screen. In “The First Wives Club,”Goldsmith told the story of the scorned wife. In “Switcheroo,” the mistress gets equal time as a sympathetic character.
At forty, Sylvie Schiffer has the perfect, dreamed-about life—a gorgeous home in the suburbs, two wonderful children, and a successful husband with a car dealership. It’s idyllic, except for what she wants and needs passion and romance. As Sylvie discovers, “When you’re married, you don’t even get kissed on the mouth.” She’s hoping for love to bloom again with her husband Bob, now that the kids are off to college, the car business is in order, and there’s more time for intimacy and a rekindling of what they once had.
…If it weren’t for the discovery of the dreaded credit card receipts among Bob’s dirty laundry. They said it all. There are romantic rendezvous all right, but not with Sylvie. Enter Marla, the mistress. Out for blood, Sylvie sets out to confront Marla, but what she finds is not what she expected. Looking at Marla, she realized that except for ten years and fifteen pounds, Marla could be her twin. Marla seems to have it all—the flowers, the dinners, hot sex, breathy phone calls—but what she really yearns for is to settle down with a husband and a home of her own. “When you’re single,” Marla sighs, “you have to smell good twenty-four hours a day.”
In a scheme that could rival I Love Lucy , the two women hatch a crazy, but brilliant idea to switch places for two weeksto bring Bob to his knees and to see how the “other half” lives. After they alter their appearances, the hilarious charade begins, but will Sylvie and Marla get what they really want?