Wallflower In Bloom

P
RAISE FOR
C
LAIRE
C
OOK

“The exuberant and charming Claire Cook is one of the sassiest and funniest creators of contemporary women’s fiction.”

—T
HE
T
IMES
-P
ICAYUNE

“Reading Claire Cook might be the most fun you have all summer.”

—E
LIN
H
ILDERBRAND

“Charming, engagingly quirky, and full of fun, Claire Cook just gets it.”

—M
EG
C
ABOT

“A master in creating funny, warm, relatable characters you root for from the very first page.”

—A
LLISON
W
INN
S
COTCH

“Inimitably warm and witty . . . Tender, touching, and terribly, terribly funny!”

—M
ARY
K
AY
A
NDREWS

“Readers will hope that Claire Cook will be telling breezy summer stories from the South Shore of Massachusetts for seasons to come.”

—T
HE
W
ASHINGTON
P
OST

F
ROM THE ACCLAIMED BESTSELLING AUTHOR
OF
M
UST
L
OVE
D
OGS
COMES A WINNING
AND WITTY NEW NOVEL ABOUT A WOMAN
WHO EMERGES FROM THE SHADOW OF
HER OVERBEARING FAMILY AND FINDS
HERSELF “DANCING WITH THE STARS.”

D
EIRDRE
G
RIFFIN
has a great life; it’s just not her own. She’s the around-the-clock personal assistant to her charismatic, high-maintenance, New Age guru brother, Tag. As the family wallflower, her only worth seems to be as gatekeeper to Tag at his New England seaside compound.

Then Deirdre’s sometime boyfriend informs her that he is marrying another woman, who just happens to be having the baby he told Deirdre he never wanted. While drowning her sorrows in Tag’s expensive vodka, Deirdre decides to use his massive online following to get herself voted on as a last-minute
Dancing with the Stars
replacement. It’ll get her back in shape, mentally and physically. It might even get her a life of her own. Deirdre’s fifteen minutes of fame have begun.

Irresistible and offbeat,
Wallflower in Bloom
is an original and deeply satisfying story of having the courage to take a leap into the spotlight, no matter where you land.

C
LAIRE
C
OOK
wrote her first novel in her minivan when she was forty-five. At fifty, she walked the red carpet at the Hollywood premiere of the adaptation of her second novel,
Must Love Dogs
, starring Diane Lane and John Cusack. She is the bestselling author of eight other novels and divides her time between the suburbs of Atlanta and Boston.

www.ClaireCook.com

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