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Anna Maxted's Running In Heels is proof you can't (always) judge a book by its title. Natalie is a twentysomething Brit with a truckload of baggage and a raging perfectionist streak. When her father runs off to America with his very surgically enhanced secretary, Natalie stands by her mother, but theirs is not the warmest of relationships.

In fact, Natalie is on the outs with nearly everyone, though she (and we) don't realize it until about a third of the way into the story. Gradually Natalie allows herself to acknowledge her problems, of the side effects of her tendency of letting everyone trample over her on their way out of her life (which came, to me anyways, as a complete shock), and from then on, the plot begins to lighten.

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