Fans of the Gossip Girl series get ready, best selling author, Cecily von Ziegesar has a new book coming out featuring four Brooklyn families. This book features quirky characters in a new up and coming hipster neighborhood that will resonate with many readers in that 30-40 demographic.
Fans of Ziegesar and early reviewers have really enjoyed this funny and quirky read and I am hoping you guys will too! While I couldn’t fit it on my review calendar, this is one that I want to share with all you guys incase you are looking for something a little light and fun with some comedy and quirky characters this fall!
If you loved the Gossip Girl series, you will probably enjoy this one as some reviewers have classified it as a more adult Gossip Girl book. Sounds like a fun read, so be sure to check out all the details below and see if it’s something that you too might enjoy!
Summary
From the number-one New York Times best-selling author of the Gossip Girl series, a deliciously irresistible novel chronicling a year in the life of four families in an upscale Brooklyn neighborhood as they seek purpose, community, and meaningful relationships—until one unforgettable night at a raucous neighborhood party knocks them to their senses.
Welcome to Cobble Hill.
In this eclectic Brooklyn neighborhood, private storms brew amongst four married couples and their children. There’s ex-groupie Mandy, so underwhelmed by motherhood and her current physical state that she fakes a debilitating disease to get the attention of her skateboarding, ex-boyband member husband Stuart. There’s the unconventional new school nurse, Peaches, on whom Stuart has an unrequited crush, and her disappointing husband Greg, who wears noise-cancelling headphones—everywhere.
A few blocks away, Roy, a well-known, newly transplanted British novelist, has lost the thread of his next novel and his marriage to capable, indefatigable Wendy. Around the corner, Tupper, the nervous, introverted industrial designer with a warehouse full of prosthetic limbs struggles to pin down his elusive artist wife Elizabeth. She remains…elusive. Throw in two hormonal teenagers, a 10-year-old pyromaniac, a drug dealer pretending to be a doctor, and a lot of hidden cameras, and you’ve got a combustible mix of egos, desires, and secrets bubbling in brownstone Brooklyn.
Smart, sophisticated, yet surprisingly tender, Cobble Hill is highly entertaining portrait of contemporary family life and the colorful characters who call Brooklyn home. (summary from Goodreads)
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