Also, adding to Arla's stress is the fact that her son Stuart will soon be marrying Ria, a girl whom Arla feels is just looking for a free ride. As they look back over their lives with Counsellor Toni Beecher, Arla slowly comes to realise her own failings, and eventually discovers the long-hidden reason why Ric will never utter a cross word to his mother. After twenty eight years of marriage, Arla, the daughter-in-law, is at the end of her tether and persuades a reluctant Ric to accompany her for marriage guidance. This novel explores the husband/wife, mother/son, and mother-in-law/daughter-in-law relationships. Arla is sick of always feeling that she comes in at only second best to her mother-in-law, who much to Arla's fury is never told anything by Ric or his sisters that she would not want to hear. Husband Ric will never voice an opinion, and puts his mother Edna up high on a pedestal. Arla Deane sometimes likens her marriage to undergoing daily psychological warfare. In addition it focuses on the sometimes tumultuous partnership between Arla and her husband Ric. Society is based on the very real and wildly popular website, Daughter-in-law Syndrome investigates the complicated relationship causing much friction between Grandmother Edna Deane and her daughter-in-law Arla. Soon Kat, Julia, and Ashley are introduced to Gabriella, a hot-shot entertainment lawyer, and Stella, whose expertise and methods are too bold and unusual to even mention.Ĭan these ladies have it all? Turns out they can, but there is definitely a price to pay. Still, the secretive group hasn’t gained its infamy by not producing results. Together, they try every suggestion their new “sisters” offer, but to no, and sometimes hilarious avail. There Kat befriends two other Society newbs: cute and lithe Julia, a bestselling fantasy book author, and bitchy, buxom ice queen Ashley. This popular global web community is run by the sophisticated and sexy Claudia, wife of a famed Hollywood producer, and doyenne of this mysterious group. Desperate, the Internet leads her to a website where women like Kat are trying to survive hubby mama dramaーa sisterhood of sorts where everybody knows your shame, but not your name. It’s affecting her work and making her reconsider her marriage. But why all the secrecy?īeautiful, feisty, top-level executive Katherine (Kat) Embers is losing it big time, undermined at every turn by her insidiously insulting “MIL” (mother-in-law). It wasn’t a cult ? or was it? The Society is an exclusive, underground club to help women cope with their mother-in-law problems.
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