The Cougar Club: A Novel

by Susan McBride

Overview

Cougars are in! The older woman/younger man match up is no longer taboo—look at Demi and Ashton, or Courteney Cox in Cougar Town. Now Susan McBride, acclaimed author of the Debutant Drop-Out mystery series, shows us that life and romance emphatically do not end at forty in The Cougar Club. The funny and touching story of three childhood pals who discover that you’re never too old to follow your heart, The Cougar Club is an unadulterated delight which Agatha, Anthony, and Macavity Award-winning author Harley Jane Kozak calls, “can’t put it down storytelling…[that] will charm you and surprise you, right up to the last page.”

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780061966125
Publisher:	HarperCollins Publishers
Publication date:	01/26/2010
Sold by:	HARPERCOLLINS
Format:	eBook
Pages:	336
Sales rank:	344,536
File size:	407 KB

About the Author

Susan McBride is the USA Today bestselling author of Blue Blood and the Debutante Dropout Mysteries that include The Good Girl's Guide to Murder, The Lone Star Lonely Hearts Club, Night of the Living Deb, Too Pretty to Die, and Say Yes to the Death. She also writes the bestselling River Road Mysteries and has penned three women’s fiction titles: The Truth About Love and Lightning, Little Black Dress, and The Cougar Club. She chronicled her bout with breast cancer in the short memoir, In the Pink: How I Met the Perfect (Younger) Man, Survived Breast Cancer, and Found True Happiness After Forty. She lives in St. Louis, Missouri, with her husband and daughter.

What People are Saying About This

Harley Jane Kozak

“Susan McBride delivers her trademark “can’t put it down” storytelling with style, sex, and humor. Kick off your Louboutins, and stay in for the night. The Cougar Club will charm you and surprise you, right up to the last page.”

Pamela Morsi

“Funny and irreverent. Fans of SEX & THE CITY and FIRST WIVES CLUB will love this new take on gals and guys and games lovers play.”

Editorial Reviews

They are middle-aged, hear them roar. And so they do, this trio of 40-something careerists and lifelong BFFs—Kat, an out-of-work and out-of-love New York advertising exec; Carla, a St. Louis anchorwoman who’s protecting her turf from an invading bimbo; and Elise, a successful dermatologist wife and mom who’s undone by her empty nest and empty sex life. Kat’s abrupt job loss sends her running home to St. Louis, which triggers a reunion of the three friends and prompts their rediscovery of each other and the awakening of their inner cougars. In the process, the gals rifle through a slew of good-looking young hunks in the search for love and meaningful employment. The journey is full of curves and detours, even if the destination is a foregone conclusion. McBride, author of the YA series the Debs, explores new territory with these adult heroines and puts together a good-old-girls club with characters who are smart and insatiable, and who like their men young, athletic, and accommodating. It may not be likely, but it sure is a fun fantasy. (Feb.)

Publishers Weekly

Susan McBride delivers her trademark “can’t put it down” storytelling with style, sex, and humor. Kick off your Louboutins, and stay in for the night. The Cougar Club will charm you and surprise you, right up to the last page.

Harley Jane Kozak

Funny and irreverent. Fans of SEX & THE CITY and FIRST WIVES CLUB will love this new take on gals and guys and games lovers play.

USA Today bestselling author Pamela Morsi

"Funny and irreverent. Fans of SEX & THE CITY and FIRST WIVES CLUB will love this new take on gals and guys and games lovers play."

USA TODAY Best-Selling Author - Pamela Morsi