The Oakdale Dinner Club
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Publisher Description
A cheating spouse sparks the creation of a monthly dinner club as the heroine attempts to have an affair of her own.
After Mary Ann’s husband cheats on her, the suburban mom decides to have her own affair. She starts up a neighbourhood dinner club as a cover and invites three men she has earmarked as potential lovers. Along for the ride is her best friend, Alice, who has recently returned with her young daughter to Oakdale, the cozy bedroom community where the two women grew up and briefly shared a telepathic past.
Over good food and wine, new friendships develop, new dreams simmer, Mary Ann pursues her affair candidates, and Alice opens her heart and mind to ways out of her single-working-mother social rut. The stars align on the night the core dinner club members consume an aphrodisiac, go to a local dive bar, hit the dance floor, and rock their worlds.
Appetizing fare for readers who like their fiction sharp and witty with a strong dash of spice, The Oakdale Dinner Club is a suburban comedy of manners that proves it’s never too late to start over.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Mary Ann MacAllister, now Mrs. Gray, and Alice Maeda, once connected by an ephemeral telepathic link, have followed quite different life paths, both in their way equally unsatisfactory; Alice chose a sequence of lovers but no husband and as a consequence she finds herself struggling with motherhood alone, while Mary Ann opted to become a very proper housewife, consigning herself to a flawed marriage to a wealthy philanderer. Deciding that what is good for the gander is good for the goose, Mary Ann arranges a dinner party to which she invites the men she believes might make good lovers, with Alice as a bemused observer. The consequences of the dinner will transform both their lives, as well as the other guests at the party. Under the author's deft pen, her small community comes to life; her plot weaves back and forth through time with skill, and while the narrative purpose of the paranormal element of the plot seems obscure, Moritsugu's prose is so deft and her characters so entrancing this scarcely matters. Readers familiar with the author's previous novels (The Glenwood Treasure) will find this equally skillful.
