Name: All the Right Mistakes
Rating: 3.5 (4 reviews)
ISBN: 9781631527098

Laura Jamison

When the most successful of five women who have been friends since college publishes an advice book detailing the key life "mistakes" of the others--opting out, ramping off, giving half effort, and forgetting your fertility--they spend their fortieth year considering their lives against the backdrop of their outspoken friend's cruel words.

All the Right Mistakes

Isabella Stocka

This book hit me different as I have expected it to. Myself, being in a similar age as all of the female characters I had the feeling in the beginning of "oh ok, again a reminder to do this or that". However, it turned out to be a mix of this and the opposite, which I am thankful for.
All the Right Mistakes, shows you the life of 4 of 5 long time friends, who grow up together and find themselves being kind of stuck and facing problems they never wanted to face. Learning that picture-perfect life and future is starting to break. If that wasn't enough, they get betrayed by the fifth member of the group.
It is quite interesting to observe how life can change in a blink of an eye.

Five college friends have arrived at forty in very different circumstances, but with at least one thing in common: they are among the more privileged in society. Elizabeth and Sara are lawyers, Martha is a doctor, Carmen is a wealthy and well-educated homemaker, and Heather, the most successful, is a famous tech executive—and after more than two decades of friendship, they know one another better than anyone. Then Heather writes a women’s advice book detailing the key life “mistakes” of her four friends—opting out, ramping off, giving half effort, and forgetting your fertility—that becomes wildly popular, and Elizabeth, Sara, Martha, and Carmen all feel the sting of Heather’s cruel words. Despite their status, these women face everyday obstacles, including work problems, parenting challenges, secondary infertility, racism, sexism, financial stress, and marital woes—and as they weather their fortieth year, each one can’t help but wonder if their life might have been different if they had followed Heather’s advice. But as these friends are continually reminded, life is complex, messy, disappointing, and joyful, often all at once—and no one can plan her way out of that reality. In the end, all five women must embrace the idea that their lives are shaped not just by their choices but also by how they handle the obstacles life inevitably throws at us all.

All the Right Mistakes

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