Rose Feller is thirty years old, a high-powered attorney, with a secret passion for romance novels, an exercise regime she's going to start next week, and dreams of a man who will slide off her glasses, gaze into her eyes, and tell her that she's beautiful. Meet Rose's sister Maggie. Twenty-eight years old, drop-dead gorgeous and only occasionally employed, Maggie is a backing singer in a band called. She dreams of fame and fortune — and of getting her dowdy big sister to stick to a skin-care regime. These two women with nothing in common but a childhood tragedy, shared DNA, and the same size feet, are about to learn that their family is more different than they ever imagined, and that they're more alike than they'd ever believe. Funny and poignant, richly detailed and wrenchingly real, In He Shoes will speak to anyone who's endured the bonds of sisterhood, and to everyone who's dreamed of trying something else on for size.

Chef dans un restaurant, Becky est très amoureuse de son mari, et ravie d'être enceinte. Tout irait bien si les médecins la lâchaient un peu avec ses problèmes de poids. Et si son infernale belle-mère la lâchait tout court. Kelly est overbookée, hyper-ordonnée et archi-ambitieuse. Elle s'investit dans sa grossesse comme dans tout, c'est-à-dire à fond. Seul point noir dans cette organisation parfaite: son mari, qui passe ses journées vautré sur le canapé... Ça fait désordre. Ayinde est canon. Et intelligente. Et gentille, en plus. Et aussi mariée à un champion de basket dont elle attend un enfant. Bref, le genre de tille qu'on adorerait détester. Quand ces futures mamans font connaissance lors d'un cours de yoga prénatal, elles se disent qu'elles n'ont rien en commun. Mais la maternité leur promet bien des surprises.

Addie Downs and Valerie Adler will be best friends forever. At least that's what nine-year-old Addie believes when Val moves into the house across the street. But in the wake of betrayal during their teenage years, Val is swept into the popular crowd, while mousy, sullen Addie becomes her school's scapegoat. Fifteen years on, Val has found a measure of fame and fortune as the local weathergirl. Addie, meanwhile, lives alone in her parents' house, looking after her troubled brother and trying to meet Prince Charming on the internet. She's just returned from Bad Date No. 6, when she hears a knock at her door. There, on the step, is her long-gone best friend, blood on the sleeve of her coat. 'Something terrible has happened,' Val tells Addie. 'Can you help me?'