The not so perfect life of Mo Lawrence / Catherine Robertson.

Novel.

Michelle Lawrence's perfect life is just as she's designed it. But then her husband, Chad, ruins everything by taking a job in San Francisco, about as far from their comfortable family home as it's possible to get without actually emigrating. Michelle has no idea what's driving him. Up 'til now, Chad's primary focus has been keeping her happy, and Michelle can see no good reason why this had to change. But change it has, and Michelle now has to deal with Chad's increasing detachment, while building a new life with her two small children in a place filled with cat-eating coyotes and leaping deer. On top of that, Michelle's oldest friend, Darrell, is turning against marriage and babies, her newest friend, Connie, is a little too obsessed with clean taps, and her good-looking, English nanny, Benedict, has a hint of a shady past. And down the redwood-lined street, there's Aishe Herne, a woman who could pick a fight with a silent order of nuns. Aishe has designed her own kind of perfect life, in which there's room for her, her teenage son and no one else. Especially no one from her large Gypsy family, who until now Aishe has successfully kept at bay. But when cousin Patrick lands in town like a Cockney Nemesis, both Aishe and Michelle must begin determined campaigns to regain their grip on the steering wheel of their lives.