Since November 2009Book News: The Penny Pinchers Club by Sarah Strohmeyer
Posted on Thursday, June 25th, 2009 by Leah
Sarah Strohmeyer’s eleventh novel, The Penny Pinchers Club, is out on July 2nd. I haven’t read any of Sarah Strohmeyer’s novels but I’ll be looking out for this one as it sounds great:
Living in New Jersey - the state that boasts the most malls per capita - Kat’s favorite recreational activity is a no-brainer: shopping. But when she discovers that her husband, Griff, has been hiding a secret bank account, her joyful consumerism suddenly loses its appeal. Are their fights about money more serious than she understood? Is he, as her friends suggest, preparing for a divorce? Just in case, Kat decides it’s time to start saving.
Drastic times call for drastic measures: Kat starts by canceling cable and kicking her $240-a-month Starbucks habit. But what starts out as a simple effort to cut costs becomes an over-the-top obsession when Kat joins an eclectic but lovable group of savers called the Penny Pinchers Club. Soon she is pumping her gas at dawn (when it is thicker) and serving dinner made from food she retrieved at the grocery store dumpster. Kat is saving money, to be sure, but what she’s really saving is time - time she spends with Griff, their two kids . . . and an old flame who resurfaces at precisely the wrong moment, offering Kat a life where money is no object.
Also her previous novel, The Cinderella Pact, will be made into a Lifetime movie starring Poppy Montgomery (whom you may have seen on Without A Trace).
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Settling down for a 24-hour flight to Australia, Lucy finds a text message on her phone - not from her boyfriend James, as she fondly hopes, but from a woman claiming to have slept with him four times in the past month. Trapped on the plane, she questions everything about her relationship with James. 
Jane Meadows is a mum - and a shoe addict. Jane loves all things shoes, she has hundreds of pairs in her cupboards and has learnt to judge everyone by the shoes that they wear. But when baby Millie is born, shoes take a back seat to sleep and just getting through the day. 
Author Matt Dunn first came to my attention when I read his hilarious novel “
