Olivia Goldsmith Books In Order

The First Wives Club

Before Sex and the City…
before The Starter Wife…
there was The First Wives Club The sharp witted and sexy New York Times bestseller! Elise, Brenda, and Annie have one thing in common: they were all first wives. Make that two things in common they were the secret to success for each of their spouses, faithfully supporting them as they rose to the top. Okay, three things: they were each abandoned for younger, blonder, sleeker women, ‘trophy wives’ for their exes to sport about town. It may not be on the menu at New York’s finer restaurants, but revenge is a dish best served cold and while lunching at Le Cirque, the ladies decide the time for self pity is over: now it’s time to get even. How they conspire to give each man his due in full view of New York society makes The First Wives Club the ‘deliciously wicked’ San Francisco Chronicle indulgence that, like vintage champagne, goes straight to your head…
and captures your heart along the way!

Flavor of the Month

Rejected by Hollywood as too fat, actress Mary Jane Moran endures a series of operations to reemerge as thin, gorgeous Jahne Moore, and embarks on her new career in Tinseltown.BOMC Main.

Fashionably Late

All of designer Karen Kahn’s dreams seem to be coming true. She’s been honored with the fashion industry’s most coveted award, her marriage is thriving, and some very impressive money is being dangled in front of her in a proposed buyout. The only thing missing is that which she craves most a baby. Then shereceives the heartbreaking news that she will never be able to bear a child. it seems that although she has a designer label, she definitely doesn’t have designer genes. Karen becomes determined to find her own biological mother a woman she has never known. But as if the doctor’s verdict has pulled a loose thread, Karen’s carefully stitched Iife begins to unravel, and she suddenly finds herself on the brink of losing her company, her husband, and the only family she has ever known. Now Karen must decide which of her dreams she still wants…
because keeping them alive is going to be the hardest thing she’s ever had to do.

The Bestseller

At Davis & Dash, one of New York’s most prestigious publishing houses, five new authors will be published but only one of them will be a bestseller. They have worked long and hard to write their novels of romance and murder, drama and love. But the story behind the stories is even more exciting. And the vicious competition to get the right agent, the perfect editor, and the choice spot on The Bestseller list must be seen to be believed. Master novelist Olivia Goldsmith, bestselling author of The First Wives Club and Marrying Mom, takes a scathing and hilarious inside look at the deviously cutthroat world of publishing. She pierces egos, produces the dish, and punctures more than a few careers in this one of a kind novel where dreams come true and writing is its own reward.

Marrying Mom

Phyllis Geronomous is witty, blunt, razor sharp and the despair of her family. She’s a senior citizen and an original, still trying to run the lives of her three grown children. As far as they’re concerned, Phyllis’ best attribute is that she’s a Florida resident while they live in New York. Then Phyllis decides that she’s going to move back to the Big Apple. Sigourney, Sharon, and Bruce just can’t let crazy Phillis ruin their lives all over again. Christmas is unbearable enough with a visit from Mom and now she wants to stay?Only Sig has the ideal solution: they’ll join forces and marry Mom off. They call the plan ‘Operation Geezer Quest.’ But where are they going to find an old, deaf, du,b, blind, and, above all, rich groom?Marrying Mom is more than just a family farce or senior romance it is a wickedly funny comedy of New York manners that puts a delightful new twist on the notion of holiday cheer.

Switcheroo

Sylvie Schiffer at 40 has a life most women dream about: a gorgeous home in the exclusive suburb of Shaker Heights, two perfect teenage children, a successful husband with a lucrative luxury car dealership. Sylvie has everything, it seems, but what she wants most: passion and romance moonlit cruises, holding hands, gazing at the stars. ‘When you’re married,’ Sylvie sighs, ‘you don’t even get kissed on the mouth.’With building the business, raising the babies and creating their home, she and Bob hadn’t found much time to focus on love. But now that the twins are off to college and the business is blooming, Sylvie is sure they will make their marriage bloom. So she believes until one day she does the laundry and notices those incriminating credit card receipts. Her husband has found romance, but it isn’t with her. Bob is having an affair. Shocked and enraged, Sylvie fantasizes about a bullet to the leg just to make Bob lame followed by a hefty settlement. Her mother begs her to calm down: Her marriage is worth saving. Sylvie’s having none of that. Out for blood, she sets off to confront Marla, the other woman. What she finds, however, is not what she expects. Looking at Marla is like gazing back in time: Except for 10 years and 15 pounds, Marla could be her twin. Marla has the best of Bob’s love flowers, hot sex, breathy phone calls, candlelit dinner yet she admits to Sylvie that she lacks the thing she wants most: a husband and home of her own. ‘When you’re single,’ Marla sighs, ‘you have to smell good 24 hours a day.’Going beyond revenge, Sylvie hatches a brilliant scheme to make them both winners and bring Bob to his knees. But will they end up with what they want or walk away empty handed and broken hearted?No one defines modern love, work and sexual warfare better than New York Times bestselling author Olivia Goldsmith. In her most surprisingly ingenious novel yet, she once again speaks as the voice for her gender when she points out a truth not universally acknowledged until now: All wives yearn for the romance of being a mistress and all mistresses yearn for the security of being a wife.

Young Wives

Unflinchingly honest and powerfully insightful, Olivia Goldsmith captures the true essence of today’s woman as few writers can. And she’s funny while doing it. ‘Olivia Goldsmith’s forte has always been the writing of revenge novels with great, good humor,’ Washington Post Book World wrote, praising her talents, and Newsweek proclaimed she is ‘like Jane Austen dealing blackjack…
you keep licking your fingers and reaching for the next page as if it was another potato chip.’ Now the acclaimed author of the phenomenal New York Times bestseller The First Wives Club returns with her most powerful and moving novel yet, the contemporary story of three young women’s initial illusions, desperate reality, and clever responses to their dirty rotten husbands. Meet the Young Wives: Angela, Michelle, and Jada, thirty something women who appear to have lives as delicious as dessert. A typical New Yorker, half Jewish, half Italina, Angela is a lawyer married to Reid, a handsome old money WASP. Michelle, a traditionalist at heart, adors her childhood sweetheart husband, Frank, and the dream house he’s provided for her and their two beautiful children. Married to Clinton, Jada is a suburban African American wife working hard to maintain a happy home despite her husband’s failing business. She’s determined to give her family the privileges she never had. But then, like a bad souffle, the lives of Angela, Michelle, and Jada separately collapse as they each discover lies embedded in their marriages. Betrayed, their love and trust crushed, their families virtually destroyed, they unite for solace and support. While their nefarious husbands have won the first battle, the war has only just began. Sharing their misery and their dreams, they draw on one another’s friendship and strength to heal their wounds and reconstruct their lives. Bowed but not beaten, this smart, audacious trio concocts a brilliant recipe to take back what’s theirs and render justice on their duplicitous men and transform them from victims to victors…
The perfect anti Valentine’s Day story, Young Wives is an addictively funny novel with an edge. Nobody understands ‘female problems’ as well as Olivia Goldsmith, and here she is at her smart and satisfying best.

Bad Boy

Best friends Tracie and Jonny meet for coffee each Sunday night to discuss their forlorn love lives. Tracie loves boys with an affinity for leather jackets and poetry classic Bad Boys who seem too good to be true and usually are; Jonny falls for girls who never like him in that way…
until Jonny convinces Tracie to teach him some tricks of the trade. After a wardrobe makeover, learning to return from a dinner date with another phone number scrawled on his hand, scope for women at the airport baggage claim, and always carry a motorcycle helmet even though he doesn’t ride a motorcycle, Jonny quickly becomes a successful heartbreaker.

And Tracie discovers that she just might be head over heels in love with her best friend. But there are more than a few loose ends. Tracie’s current Bad Boy has at last decided he wants to settle down, her girlfriend has the hots for Jonny, and Jonny can’t understand why Tracie never liked him for who he was before the leather.

With her inimitable wit, Olivia Goldsmith, bestselling author of The First Wives Club, delivers a smart, laugh out loud tale of modern romance sure to keep listeners everywhere in stitches.

Pen Pals

Goldsmith’s novels have been hailed by critics and authors alike the New York Times said she ‘tells a credible and deeply satisfying tale. It should give pause to jerks everywhere.’ Newsweek compared her to Jane Austen dealing black jack, ‘you keep licking your fingers and reaching for the next page as if it were another potato chip.’ Scott Turow hailed her as ‘one of our reigning national wits’ while Nelson DeMille describes her books as ‘funny, sexy, hip, and very clever.’ Meet Jennifer a smart, sexy woman who has made good in a man’s world. A major player on The Street, Jennifer agrees to take the fall when her boss is caught playing fast and loose with the SEC. After all, her fianc is a lawyer with the connections to get her off. Instead, Jennifer ends up in Jennings Correctional Facility for Women, a world a whole lot tougher than her Wall Street days, inside she meets a lively group of smart, tough women: crew leader Movita; crazy Cher; blindly optimistic Theresa; and the adorable Suki. While Jennifer waits in vain for the rescue that her fianc has promised, Movita makes her an offer she can’t refuse. With Pen Pals, Olivia Goldsmith gives us another modern day battle of the sexes dished up with scathing wit, hilarity, and plenty of attitude. It is the acclaimed author at her incomparable best.

Dumping Billy

The bestselling author of The First Wives Club returns with another delightful modern day battle of the sexes dished up with scathing wit, hilarity, and plenty of attitude. There’s an old saying that life is what happens while you are busy making other plans. That’s certainly true for 28 year old Kate Jameson who’s worked hard to cross the bridge from Brooklyn to Manhattan and now works just as hard to keep her sophisticated new friends away from her old neighborhood ‘posse, ‘ the so called Bit*ches of Bushwick. With her cute apartment in Chelsea, her cold but erudite professor boyfriend and her satisfying career as a school psychologist, Kate has put the heartbreak of past lousy boyfriends behind her and tries to stay aloof from the marriage mania that has infected her old gang from Brooklyn. With the imminent engagement of her best friend Bina, it seems that Kate will be the only single girl left in the ‘posse.’ But when Bina’s intended gets the coldest of feet at the last minute, every part of Kate’s orderly life is thrown into disarray. Before she knows what has hit her, her debonair Manhattan friends have colluded with the ‘Bit*ches’ and devised a plan guaranteed to get Bina married and drive Kate crazy. The key to the scheme is ‘Dumping Billy.’ Too good looking for his own good, Billy dates legions of girls, dumps them and every single one of them gets married to the next guy she dates. The trick is to get Billy to date Bina, dump Bina, and get Bina married off. But, in Olivia Goldsmith’s fiction, as in life, nothing goes according to plan.

Simple Isn’t Easy

A humorous and practical guide offers tips on how to clean out the closet, find personal ”signature styles” that make stylish dressing simple and effective, and save money while clothes shopping.