The Oakdale Dinner Club - Softcover

Moritsugu, Kim

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1459709551 ISBN 13: 9781459709553

Publisher: Dundurn, 2014

Synopsis

A cheating spouse sparks the creation of a monthly dinner club as the heroine attempts to have an affair of her own.

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.

Appetizing fare for readers who like their fiction sharp and witty with a strong dash of spice, The Oakdale Dinner Club is a suburban comedy of manners that proves it’s never too late to start over.

About this title

Product Description:

When supermom Mary Ann discovers that her banker husband has been cheating on her, she sets out to have an affair of her own. With the reluctant help of her best friend, Alice, she convenes a monthly dinner club in the hope of solving her problems. Mary Ann invites some women friends to join her, as well as three potential male lovers. The result is the Oakdale Dinner Club, a group that meets regularly to explore fine food, fine wine, and as much extramarital sex as they can possibly fit in. Kim Moritsugu follows the exploits of a once-ordinary housewife on a determined quest for infidelity in a novel that is perfect fare for readers who like their fiction sharp and witty with a strong dash of spice.

Review:

The Oakdale Dinner Club, Toronto writer Kim Moritsugu's clever sixth novel, is sheer entertainment from beginning to end. Her likable characters, restless in a 21st-century way, not to mention Mary Ann's nutty schemes, have the reader cheering them on. Indeed, their new pursuits could be worthy of a sequel. (Waterloo Record)

"Witty, smart, sarcastic, The Oakdale Dinner Club is a compelling read." (Eva Stachniak, author of The Winter Palace and Empress of the Night)

"I had no idea that reading could be so much fun! This novel is a delicious romp ― social satire blended nicely with food and sex, a wonderfully wicked combo." (Isabel Huggan, author of Belonging: Home Away From Home)

. . . The Oakdale Dinner Club is light and entertaining and goes down as smoothly as the free-flowing dinner-party wine. (Quill & Quire)

Under the author’s deft pen, her small community comes to life; her plot weaves back and forth through time with skill . . . Readers familiar with the author's previous novels (The Glenwood Treasure) will find this equally skillful. (Publishers Weekly)

About this edition

• Publisher: Dundurn
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 1459709551
• ISBN 13: 9781459709553
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 280