Ann Pearlman’s debut fiction novel, The Cookie Club, is due out on 7th January 2010 and follows her Pulitzer-prize nominated non-fiction memoir Infidelity. The Cookie Club is her first fictional novel, and has been released in the US under the title of The Christmas Cookie Club, but as it’s not due out here until after Christmas, it’s been retitled. I love the sound of it, and fans of Kate Jacobs “Friday Night Knitting Club” will like this too! Here’s the synopsis:

On the first Monday of December, every year, twelve friends gather in the evening with batches of homemade cookies wrapped in beautiful packages. They drink wine, they eat and they take turns telling the story of the cookies they have baked.

Somehow these stories are always emblematic of the year that has just passed, as complicated and rich as our own lives. Lives full of sisterly love and conflict, yearning for babies and grandchildren, passion and disillusionment with men, a secret decade long affair, the loss of a job, the death of a child …

These women are as imperfect as real women, made heroic by their ability to resolve conflict, to endure and support each other. The Cookie Club is as involving, heartwarming and uplifting a story as you’ll ever read.

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