The Actor and the Housewife

418 Pages·2016·1.62 MB·English

by  Hale Shannon

The Actor and the Housewife
Also by Shannon Hale
Austenland
FOR YOUNG READERS:
Rapunzel’s Revenge
Book of a Thousand Days
Princess Academy
THE BOOK OF BAYERN:
The Goose Girl
Enna Burning
River Secrets
The Actor and the Housewife
A NOVEL
Shannon Hale
Copyright © 2009 by Shannon Hale
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LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CATALOGING-IN-PUBLICATION DATA
Hale, Shannon.
The actor and the house wife : a novel / Shannon Hale.—1st U.S. ed.
p. cm.
eISBN: 9781608191321
813'.6—dc22
2008049699
First U.S. Edition 2009
1 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2
Designed by Sara E. Stemen
Typeset by Westchester Book Group Printed in the
United States of America by Quebecor World Fairfield
For the Bryner and Bronson clans—sixty grandparents, parents, siblings, aunts,
uncles, and cousins—who lent their names to the characters in this book in a
completely random fashion and under no circumstance resemble their fictional
namesakes. Except for that one. You know who I mean. No, not you, silly, the
other one. Riiight . . .
Contents
ACT 1
First Kisses
ACT 2
Stage Kisses
ACT 3
Last Kisses