It is the summer of 1959 when forty-two-year-old Barbara Beeching, a married mother of two grown-up children, meets Alexander Liberty. Adored by her family and admired by her friends, Barbara never imagined that an unexpected, tender and surprisingly passionate affair with a much younger man was on the horizon. Alexander tells Barbara that she has a mind and a life of her own and, to her astonishment, Barbara is seduced into a different way of thinking. Will she allow the unexpected bloom of passion and intellectual curiosity to destroy the only life she's ever known?Forty years later, thirty-five-year-old Siena Grant is at a very different crossroads. Immersed in her challenging, exciting career as a television fashion consultant, Siena does not believe that happiness necessarily requires becoming a mother. But her husband, Charlie, desperately wants a child. Can Siena give Charlie the family life he craves without sacrificing her ambition or well-ordered, pleasing life? Or will children give her a kind of joy she's never experienced before?Decades separate Barbara and Siena - years in which the lives of women have changed substantially. Or have they? Everything She Thought She Wanted reaches across time and the battle of the sexes to tell the story of two women at the most exhilarating and pivotal moments in their lives. Read Less