NEW RELEASE
The Oakdale Dinner Club - Kim Moritsugu (2014)
With Mary Ann's husband regularly absent on business, she decides to have a fling - or perhaps two or three! The country club regular issues invitations to a neighbourhood dinner club, ensuring that the guests not only include a few men with potential but that they all leave their partners at home. Meanwhile her childhood friend Alice - who she once shared a telepathic connection with - bumps into a former classmate, Jake. Is the single mother up for some romance at last? With its intriguing premise, this book is somewhat naughty but nice. Mary Ann and her plotting are its main driving force - and many readers will find, despite her faults, that they can't blame a girl for trying. The mind reading ability also added a unique element to this quirky yet enjoyable read.
The Oakdale Dinner Club, by Kim Moritsugu, is about food and infidelity. The summary says: "After Mary Ann's husband cheats on her, the suburban mom decides to have her own affair. She starts up a neighbourhood dinner club as a cover and invites three men she has earmarked as potential lovers. Along for the ride is her best friend, Alice, who has recently returned with her young daughter to Oakdale, the cozy bedroom community where the two women grew up and briefly shared a telepathic past. Over good food and wine, new friendships develop, new dreams simmer, Mary Ann pursues her affair candidates, and Alice opens her heart and mind to ways out of her single-working-mother social rut. The stars align on the night the core dinner club members consume an aphrodisiac, go to a local dive bar, hit the dance floor, and rock their worlds." The Oakdale Dinner Club is out in May 2014.