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The Next Visiting Teaching Adventure:
Lipstick Wars
Eden Duncan is a young mother with a new baby and a toddler who likes to escape. Despite her best efforts he's been caught running down the street naked one time too often, and due to a mean-spirited neighbor, she finds herself being investigated by the state.
Her new visiting teaching companion encourages her to join a walking group which is more than she can handle but she agrees in order to keep up appearances. Feeling overwhelmed and friendless, Eden doesn't know where to turn when one of Hayden's romps brings her face to face with a reclusive artist who is struggling with issues of her own,.
Can this unlikely friendship help her, or will it only escalate the"Lipstick Wars" going on around her?
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What People are Saying
about “Lipstick Wars”
"After reading LIPSTICK WARS, you'll never look at a tube of lipstick in quite the same way. This is a fun page-turner that combines LDS culture, visiting teaching, the challenges of motherhood, and the perils of home ownership all in one makeup bag."
- Tanya Parker Mills, Author of The Reckoning, 2008 Whitney Finalist and 2009 Indie Book Award Winner for Multicultural Fiction
The characters in Lipstick Wars could easily belong to my ward. Ms. Thackeray has portrayed realistic characters in true-to-life situations while weaving their intriguing stories together in a cohesive whole. I couldn't wait to find out what would happen next. Anyone who has ever chased an errant toddler down the street, suffered a miscarriage, judged themselves against the perfect people at church, or been assigned to visiting teach strangers will love this book.
- Teralee Deighton, Mother of six and visiting teacher of many
"Reading this book is like catching up with friends you haven't seen in a while. A feel good story of laughing, loving, and learning to cope as an LDS woman… Loved it!"
- Ann Action, Author of “The Miracle Maker”
“Lipstick Wars” explores the complicated dynamics of some of the most powerful people on earth—women—and their capacity to lift or dismantle one another. Christine Thackeray’s carefully-crafted cast runs the gamut on the perfection scale, becoming entangled in each other’s messy lives, and reminding us that compassion and love trump a manicured lawn or immaculately- scrubbed kids every time.
- Laurie C. Lewis, Author of “Awakening Avery” and the Free Men and Dreamer series
“Christine Thackeray is able to create characters that we know before we even open the cover of Lipstick Wars. They are our neighbors, our visiting teachers, ourselves, and they cope with universal problems: acceptance, misunderstanding, falling short of our own expectations. In laughing at Christine’s often hilarious portrayal of the predicaments in which her characters find themselves , we are able to laugh at ourselves. So, Lipstick Wars is not only a good read, it’s therapeutic.”
- Liz Adair, Whitney Award Winner and best-selling author of The Mist of Quarry Harbor and Counting the Cost
"A charming and funny read for the whole family, sure to tickle the funny bone of anyone who's ever survived a hectic Sunday morning or a crazy neighbor."
- Michael Young, author of The Canticle Kingdom
"Lipstick Wars" is Visiting Teaching on a roller coaster...some sisters are up and others are down. Christine Thackery shows not only the struggles of being a Visiting Teacher, but also the blessings that come from fulfilling this calling. All women will be entertained, enriched and lifted up by reading "Lipstick Wars."
- Sheila Windley Staley Why Not Because I Said So and LDS Womens Book Review
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