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Must Love Dogs

By Claire Cook

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| Paperback | 9780451217219

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Claire Cook's beguilingly original Ready to Fall struck a vibrant chord with its "perky take on midlife angst" (Publishers Weekly). In Must Love Dogs she gives us a contemporary Everywoman in a big rollicking south-of-Boston Irish family-a zany novel with the flavor of Nora EphrContinue

Claire Cook's beguilingly original Ready to Fall struck a vibrant chord with its "perky take on midlife angst" (Publishers Weekly). In Must Love Dogs she gives us a contemporary Everywoman in a big rollicking south-of-Boston Irish family-a zany novel with the flavor of Nora Ephron, Susan Isaacs, and Jeanne Ray's Julie and Romeo.

Forty-year-old Sarah Hurlihy, a divorced preschool teacher whose life is her classroom, is about to meet her first date in more than a decade. It was the "Loves Dogs" that hooked her in the personal ad, and now she is scanning her neighborhood café for the man with a yellow rose. And find him she does, but he's the last person on earth she expects to find there . . .

In Must Love Dogs, hilarious missteps abound. Sarah's widowed father, Billy Hurlihy, with six adult kids, is seeing at least two women. And he and Sarah aren't the only Hurlihys with romantic challenges. Her brother Michael, for one, has a rocky marriage that Mother Teresa, his St. Bernard, just may put over the edge. With self-deprecating humor and a laugh-out-loud view of the way we live now, including shar pei/Labrador crosses and a transgenerational body-piercing experience, Must Love Dogs is a perfect beach read that melts the heartache of dating with warmth and humor.

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  • The Best Reviews: Claire Cook, Must Love Dogs

    "Witty, touching look at dating after death or divorce" Sarah Hurlihy, a divorced preschool teacher from a large Boston-area Irish-American family, is ready to date again. She starts by skimming the personal ads and ends up on a date with the last pe ... (read full critics)

    thebestreviews published on Fri, 17 Sep 2010

  • Must Love Dogs By Claire Cook

    In an age of whiny novels about 30-something singletons whose sole goal in life seems to be snagging a decent man, Must Love Dogs is a refreshing antidote. Yes, 40-year-old Sarah Hurlihy is edging back into dating after a particularly nasty divorce, ... (read full critics)

    bookpage published on Mon, 13 Sep 2010

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  • English Books
  • Paperback 304 Pages
  • Edition: Reprint
  • ISBN-10: 0451217217
  • ISBN-13: 9780451217219
  • Publisher: NAL Trade
  • Pub date: Jul 05, 2005
  • Dimensions: 1290 mm x 839 mm x 129 mm Just how big is that?
  • Also available as: Mass Market Paperback and Hardcover
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