In the end, Victoria is offered a new job, as a spokesmodel for the wingwoman company. What is more, Chicago Wingwoman has hired Nine Communications, which is the company Patrick is going to New York to take over, to do a national campaign. Victoria will have to move to New York for a few months to do photo shoots and other promotional things. In the usual chick lit way the ending is not wrapped up in a bow, with all her problems solved, however Victoria feels a sense of hope about the direction her life is going, and is ready to start a new chapter in New York. Her concluding remark is “[a]s Patrick bends down and kisses me good-bye, I realize that I’m officially the happiest, luckiest singletini in Chicago. And, well, maybe soon I’ll be the happiest ex-singletini in Manhattan? I mean, you never know. New York might not be sooo bad… Right?” (Trimble 2006: 309). Victoria follows her heart, and for a moment she is not preoccupied with what everyone else around her has got the she has not. This gives her time to concentrate on what is important in her own life, and she makes a decision, purely based on her own wishes and not based on what kind of lifestyle choices her friends have chosen for themselves.
Helen’s (GRoM) biggest problem is how to get rid of Matthew again, now that he has given up his whole life for her. It does not make it easier that Matthew’s son Leo is rather attractive, the same age as Helen, and actually interested in her, well, he is interested in Eleanor (Helen’s alter ego) to be exact. In other words, at thirty-nine Helen has to make some serious decisions about what to do with the rest of her life. Clearly, she is not happy about the fact that her only other single friend is now getting married, leaving her all alone in her misery. So, should she just accept the fact that Matthew is now living with her, or should she break up with him, and give Leo a chance? In order to answer these questions she has to figure out whether or not she will continue being ‘the husband stealer’ or if she wants to be in a relationship with someone her own age, someone without a wife and kids at home.
After Matthew surprises her with the news that he has in fact left Sophie, and that he now wants to live with Helen, she can barely concentrate while he is telling her about the break up. Helen tries to bring up the possibility of Matthew going back to his wife and kids
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