How Lucky You Are

Written by Kristyn Kusek Lewis

Narrated by Coleen Marlo

In the tradition of Emily Giffin and Marisa de los Santos, How Lucky You Are is an engaging and moving novel about three women struggling to keep their long-standing friendship alive. Waverly, who's always been the group's anchor, runs a cozy bakery but worries each month about her mounting debt. Kate is married to a man who's on track to be the next governor of Virginia, but the larger questions brewing in their future are unsettling her. Stay-at-home mom Amy has a perfect life on paper, but as the horrific secret she's keeping from her friends threatens to reveal itself, she panics.As life's pressures build all around them, Waverly knows she has some big decisions to make. In doing so, she will discover that the lines between loyalty and betrayal can become blurred, happy endings aren't always clear-cut, and sometimes you have to risk everything to gain the life you deserve.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Tantor Media, Inc
• Release date: Jan 21, 2013
• ISBN: 9781452681450

Kristyn Kusek Lewis

Kristyn Kusek Lewis is the author of HALF OF WHAT YOU HEAR (Harper Paperbacks, 2019), SAVE ME (Grand Central, 2014) and HOW LUCKY YOU ARE (Grand Central, 2012). A former magazine editor, Kristyn has been writing for national publications for nearly twenty years and is currently the contributing books editor at Real Simple magazine. Kristyn is a graduate of the College of the Holy Cross and the Vermont College of Fine Arts, where she earned an MFA in creative writing. She lives in the Washington, D.C. area with her family. 

Reviews for How Lucky You Are

[nyiper · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

I love the way Lewis writes---there is not one page that doesn't keep you tightly pulled into the story.

[beamis12 · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

A book about friendships, three friends from college and their different lives and problems. My favorite character was Waverly though she had a distorted view of relationships and what they mean, she still seemed to try to work it all out in her head and slowly comes to the realization that no relationships are perfect. Also about the masks people present to the public and how one never really knows what is going on behind closed door. I kept asking myself how I would act if my friends where having these kind of problems, spousal abuse, infidelity, and so far this is not something I have had to deal with. This is woman's fiction but deals with some serious issues and I did enjoy it. Loved that Waverley owned a bakery and was trying to make it in the small business world. ARC from NetGalley.

[lilacwolf · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

From Lilac Wolf and StuffI couldn't put this book down once I started reading it. I even read late into the night and finally finished it before work this morning.The main character, Waverly is a woman we can all relate to. She feels inferior to her friends, that she hasn't "grown up" yet, and when she gets so stressed out she hides from the issue (like bills). One of her friends is a woman from a wealthy family, whom she is jealous of the money and the beauty. Then her other friend marries a doctor, has a child and settles down in the suburbs. Wavery is sinking under a mountain of debt and she can't seem to appreciate what she does have.When things start coming apart for her friends, she realizes what she nearly lost. She works on her getting own life together, even as she is helping her girlfriends. This struck me as very realistic. Our lives aren't running a single story-line, we have as many things pulling at us as we allow. Friends, family, work, children, even school. All that goes on simultaneously and the author did a fantastic job capturing that.Yes another 5 star review. I've had a very lucky week.