One Day at a Time (Hardcover, World ed.)

Some twenty years after they graduated from college, full of hope and plans for the future, Claudia Adams is the envy of her friends. Her husband Todd is a successful investment banker, whose money pays for glamorous Caribbean holidays and a desirable New York home. But appearances are not everything. When Todd's business success turns out to be founded upon a fraud, and their marriage is revealed as a sham, Claudia must find out the hard way about financial insecurity and the realities of the employment market. As a middle-aged woman with no real work experience except as a wife, mother and hostess she is forced to take a low-level job as a saleswoman at Millers Department Store. Gradually, she starts to rebuild her shattered life one day at a time . . .