Erasing Maddie

When Madeline Jarvis walks away from her life, it signals the death of a forty-year marriage. Erasing Maddie is a poignant and humorous story that engages the reader with its changes in lifestyle, roles, and relationships. Erasing Maddie leads the reader through the grief of a stunned husband to all of Maddie's efforts to reinvent herself. Although it is a work of fiction, the author suspects there is not a married woman alive who has not wanted to walk away and find herself at some point. When she confessed the plot to her husband, he quickly replied, "Let me write the husband's side! Don't you think men want to run away, too?" McGlone's first book, Life Takes Detours, is a memoir. Reviewers said, "McGlone enthusiastically celebrates every experience as she allows the reader an intimate and revealing look into her private perspectives on successfully navigating life's many demanding roles." Life Takes Detours won the Editor's Choice Award and received excellent reviews.