Spin Doctor by Leslie Carroll Susan is a New York City psychologist who spends her early mornings in the laundry room doing pro bono sessions for the women of her apartment building. There’s the ballerina who can’t talk unless she’s dancing, the lesbian couple trying to adopt a baby, the actor trying to recover from her grandmother’s death, the housekeeper whose boss is driving her crazy, and the boss, who isn’t transitioning to motherhood smoothly at all, and the elderly lady whose husband died five years ago, but who still can’t bring herself to sleep on his side of the bed. And there’s Susan’s own family – her husband, the graphic novel author, her rebellious teenage daughter and her twelve-year-old son, already with a promising Broadway career. The characters and their problems are all delightfully different, with all but the new mother feeling believably real to me. As the washing machines break down one by one, Susan’s personal life does, too. It’s chick lit, so expect the girlfriends to pull through. I did find it a little less frothy than I was expecting from the cover copy, but it’s an enjoyable story all the same.