Elizabeth the First Wife, Hardcover by Dolan, Lian, ISBN 1684428734, ISBN-13 9781684428731, Brand New, Free shipping in the US<div><p><b>The <i>Los Angeles Times</i>–bestselling author of <i>Helen of Pasadena</i> offers a smart, laugh-out-loud romantic comedy about new love, new life, and Shakespeare.</b></p><p>"A charmingly funny and effortless read....wonderfully developed cast of characters"<br>— <i>Library Journal (STARRED REVIEW)</i></p><p>Elizabeth Lancaster, an English professor at Pasadena City College, finds her perfectly dull but perfectly orchestrated life upended one summer by three men: her movie-star ex-husband, a charming political operative, and William Shakespeare. Until now, she'd been content living in the shadow of her high-profile and highly accomplished family. Then her college boyfriend and one-time husband of seventeen months, A-list action star FX Fahey, shows up with a job offer that she can't resist, and Elizabeth's life suddenly gets a whole lot more interesting. She's off to the Oregon Shakespeare Festival for the summer to make sure FX doesn't humiliate himself in an avant-garde production of <i>A Midsummer Night's Dream</i>.<br><br>As she has done so skillfully with her novels, <i>The Sweeney Sisters</i> and <i>Helen of Pasadena</i>, which spent more than a year on the <i>Los Angeles Times</i> bestseller list, Lian Dolan spins a lively, smart, and very funny tale of a woman reinventing her life in unexpected ways.</p></div>