There’s a new online book club at SheKnows!
The SheKnows Book Club will discuss a main selection every other month, and will highlight other bonus books with author interviews, sneak peeks, etc. More information is available here on the SheKnows Entertainment channel; you can register for a free account, upload your avatar if you like, and join the conversation on the SheKnows Book Club message boards.
Pieces of Happily Ever After, by Irene Zutell, is the first pick. In it, Alice Hirsch tries to pick up the pieces of her broken “happily ever after” and figure out what to do with them. Will she try to glue her life back together? Throw away those shards of her old life? Or will she find a way to turn those broken pieces into something new, maybe something better than she had before?
Here’s the publisher’s synopsis:
What happens after“happily ever after”? Alice Hirsh is about to find out…
Alice, a former New Yorker who thought she’d never feel at home in the bizarre world of the San Fernando Valley, was adapting, raising her 5-year-old daughter while trying to keep her job and make her new house a home. When her attorney husband lands a trophy client – box-office queen Rose Maris – things begin to look up. Then Alex starts working late – a lot. He crunches his paunch into a six-pack and trades his Gap ensembles for Armani everything.
Soon, Rose and Alex’s affair blazes in the tabloids and Alice is plunged into trash-gossip hell. Her life crumbles around her as she navigates her newly single self through suburban LA –a place rife with porn stars, psycho soccer moms and nutty neighbors.
Is there a chance to wrest Alex from the Sexiest Woman Alive? And if so… would Alice want him back? And what about George–her college sweetheart? Or Johnny, a walking charm-bomb paparazzo? As Alice inventories the rubble of her life, she desperately searches for her bearings and is forced to ask herself what she really wants from life, love and herself.
I’m looking forward to reading about Alice, and how she handles the sudden unwelcome glare of the spotlight, the gossip and the rumors … all while trying to juggle the responsibilities of parenting and figuring out which direction she’ll head now.
Here’s the book trailer, with a little video tease:
If you’re curious, too (and I know some of you are!), head over to this post, where you can enter to win a free copy of Pieces of Happily Ever After.
This is sure to be fantastic with such a great line-up of book bloggers!
SheKnows hasn’t made the announcement listing the Book Club bloggers yet, but we’ve seen some other posts …
I can’t wait to see the full list of Book Club Bloggers.
I’m excited, this should be fun!
This looks like an engrossing read. I will have to think about joining the group! Thanks for letting me know!