NEW RELEASE
Cougars - Claire Irvin (2011)
When Caroline Walker finds out Les, her husband of more than 20 years, has been cheating on her, her perfect world crumbles. Now a single mother of a teenage girl Rachel, and a successful (a.k.a. busy!) business owner, Caroline is sexy, fit, and after a pep talk from her best friend Maryanne - she's ready to party. Maryanne shows Caroline a life full of glitz, glamour, parties, and best of all, younger men. This book's main focus is relationships: Caroline's mother-daughter relationship with Rachel, her relationship with her best friends Esther and Maryanne, her relationships with her employees at work, and most intriguing, her relationship with a 19-year-old male-model named Adam. As Caroline looks deeper into her relationships she finds that things aren't always what she thought they were, divorce has given her a new outlook on life. Then everyone's world is flipped upside-down with the announcement of a pregnancy. An interesting and funny read, I couldn't put it down. I am looking forward to Claire Irvin's next book. (AV)
Cougars, by She magazine editor Claire Irvin, is about a newly separated woman who finds herself attracted to a younger man. Subtitled You're As Young as the Man You Feel, the summary says: "Caroline Walker has it all. At 42, her immaculate looks and toned body are of a woman half her age. She's a successful entrepreneur, and juggles her career with domestic bliss: wife of City trading sensation Les Walker, and mother to their teenage daughter Rachel. But when Caroline learns that Les has been having an affair, her perfect world falls apart. Caroline is suddenly single - something she hasn't been in a very long time. With the help of Maryanne, her outgoing and ex-Hollywood starlet friend, Caroline's life is transformed into a glamorous social whirl as she discovers her missing 20s. And the young men she should have been dating then, too ... But is Caroline ready to put the past behind her? And can true love really strike twice?" Cougars is out in March.