The Widow's Guide to Sex & Dating

Radziwill, Carole

ISBN 10: 1480506281 ISBN 13: 9781480506282

Publisher: Brilliance Audio, 2014

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A deliciously smart and funny debut novel about loss, libido...and true love

A decade ago, Claire Byrne, now thirty-two, put her biggest career aspirations and deepest personal desires on hold when she became the wife of Charlie Byrne, the famous sexologist and man about town. Equal parts Alfred Kinsey and Warren Beatty, Charlie is charming yet pompous, supportive yet unfaithful, a firm believer that sex and love can’t coexist. When Charlie is killed one day, in an absurd sidewalk collision with a falling sculpture (a Giacometti, no less!), his death turns Claire’s world upside down. She misses Charlie. She needs to reinvent herself. As unseemly as it may be to admit it, she longs to lose her “widow’s virginity.” And she wants love.

Over the course of a year, Claire eats too little and drinks too much. She sees first- and second-opinion shrinks, the Village griot, a psychic, and a “botanomanist.” She dates a billionaire, a journalist, a hockey player, and even Jack Huxley—the movie star.

And, as Claire moves on from Charlie and searches for herself, she comes to realize she’s been given a second chance to live the meaningful and passionate life that passed her by once before.

Listeners of Carole Radziwill’s debut memoir, the lauded and New York Times bestsellingWhat Remains, know well that she has a particular talent for writing about friendship, loss, and love. And listeners ofThe Widow’s Guide to Sex and Dating will discover that those gifts extend delightfully and tenderly to the literary screwball comedy. In spinning Claire’s story, Radziwill limns a world where glamorous movie stars fall for brainy working girls and where true friends must be leaned on until true love arrives, and she reports back with a novel that is as romantic as it is funny and wise.

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Review

'Witty and charming ... a delight. The character of the widow is a modern-day Holly Golightly' Candace Bushnell. (Candace Bushnell)

'Radziwill's delicious debut novel ... is a poignant tale of love and loss' Publisher's Weekly. (Publisher's Weekly)

From the Back Cover

Rule #7: Hide your dead husband's robe from the one-night stand.
Rule #12: Don't spend Christmas with your mother-in-law.
Rule #23: When in doubt, make your own rule.
When Claire's husband is killed in a freak accident, it feels like her life is over. But the world keeps on spinning. So as a young widow, must she return to the battlefield of bad dates and rewrite the rule book? For anyone with a broken heart, and anyone who's had to begin again, this is a unique, extraordinarily perceptive and darkly comic novel about widows, sex and love - in that order.

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