NEW RELEASE
The Cougar Club - Susan McBride (2010)
Kat decides it's time to make a change. So in a spur-of-the-moment decision she leaves her boyfriend and New York and moves back home to St Louis where she finds out it is harder to start over at 40 than she thought. Elise is in a rut - she has just watched her son leave for college and she realises, too, that her life needs a change. Her husband, Michael, barely looks at her anymore and she feels like she has no life besides her son and her job as a dermatologist. Then one day at her office she runs into an old friend who is 10 years younger than her. Carla has it all - she is a top reporter and everyone knows her name but since she is pushing past 40 she is well aware that her ex-husband may be trying to get a younger person to take over her anchor spot. This is a great tale - amid all the sex, lust and deception these three women may find out all they have is each other to get through their mid-life crisis. (CG)
Susan McBride's The Cougar Club is centred around three women who aren't about to fade into the background as they hit their 40s. Kat's perfect life takes a hit when she loses her high-powered advertising job and catches her live-in lover in a compromising position. News anchor Carla is in danger of being replaced by a 20-something blonde bimbo. And dermatologist Elise thinks her plastic surgeon husband is playing doctors and nurses with someone else. Their unofficial Cougar Club quickly learns three things about survival of the fittest in our youth-obsessed society: true friendship never dies, the only way to live is real, and you're never too old to follow your heart. The Cougar Club, McBride's first women's fiction title, is out in January. The Missouri-based author usually writes teen or mystery novels.