On a personal note, Mary lives in New York City with her husband, actor Robert Hogan, and their freckly Catahoula rescue, Lucy. Hint: Who has the time to maintain those roots?!Ĭurrently, Mary's novel TWO SISTERS is in the works to be made into a movie. One summer day, Libby and her best friend hatch a plan: Before their freshman year is over. Personal stories, mostly, such as 'Lasting Lessons' ( Woman's Day) about the final days of her mother's life, 'Malibu Dreamin'' ( Coastal Living) about her longings as a young writer, and 'Taking the Peroxide Plunge' ( Fitness) about life in the blonde lane. Summary, etc.: Relates the angst-ridden life of fourteen-year-old Libby Madrigal as she tries to deal with her unhappily married. Buy a used copy of The Serious Kiss book by Mary Hogan. Mary has also written for several national magazines. The serious kiss comes in a wonderful final chapter containing a rare gift: a supremely satisfying last sentence. Her books combine humor with real-life drama-stories ranging from growing up in an alcoholic family (THE SERIOUS KISS) to being a curvy girl in body-obsessed Los Angeles (PRETTY FACE) to the perils of a family full of secrets (TWO SISTERS). Previous novels include the young adult titles, The Serious Kiss. Her seven teenage novels include: THE SERIOUS KISS, PERFECT GIRL, PRETTY FACE and the SUSANNA Series. Mary Hogan is the bestselling author of Two Sisters and the historical novel. Mary's fiction career began in the Young Adult genre. The Serious Kiss by Mary Hogan - Libbys father is a drunk, her mum wouldnt know the meaning of home cooking if it landed in her lap and her brothers in. A story of class and catastrophe, it's Downton Abbey meets Titanic. In this uneven first novel, Libby's dysfunctional family suddenly moves from its Chatsworth, Calif., home to a trailer park in the desert town of Barstow, and the 14-year-old narrator must quickly.

THE WOMAN IN THE PHOTO is a compulsively-readable tale of two young women-one in elegant Gilded Age America, one in scrappy modern-day California-whose lives are linked by an old photograph taken in the aftermath of one of America's largest disasters: The Johnstown Flood.

The serious kiss by mary hogan