✍ Scribed by Cook, Claire
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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 the yellow rose. And find him she does, but he′s the last person on earth she expects to see. In Must Love Dogs, Claire Cook gives us a contemporary Everywoman in a big, rollicking south-of-Boston Irish family. Here, hilarious missteps abound. Sarah′s widowed father, Billy Hurlihy, with six adult kids, is seeing at least two women. And he and Sarah are not the only Hurlihys with romantic challenges Her brother, Michael, for one, has a rocky marriage that Mother Teresa, his Saint Bernard puppy, just may push 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 wry, clever, hilarious romp about dating and family life. ”Bright.” — USA Today “Breezy.” — San Francisco Chronicle “A hoot.” — The Boston Globe “Funny and pitch-perfect.” — Chicago Tribune “Utterly charming.” — Library Journal “Readers will hope that Claire Cook will be telling breezy summer stories from the South Shore of Massachusetts for seasons to come.” — The Washington Post “Perfect for whiling away an afternoon at the beach.” — Library Journal “A hilariously original tale about dating and its place in a modern woman′s life.” — BookPage “Cook dishes up plenty of charm.” — San Francisco Chronicle
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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 Ephron, Susan Isaac