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 Isaacs, and Jeanne Ray's Julie and Romeo.
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 a yellow rose. And find him she does, but he's the last person on earth she expects to find there . . .
In Must Love Dogs, hilarious missteps abound. Sarah's widowed father, Billy Hurlihy, with six adult kids, is seeing at least two women. And he and Sarah aren't the only Hurlihys with romantic challenges. Her brother Michael, for one, has a rocky marriage that Mother Teresa, his St. Bernard, just may put 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 is a perfect beach read that melts the heartache of dating with warmth and humor.
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 a yellow rose. And find him she does, but he's the last person on earth she expects to find there . . .
In Must Love Dogs, hilarious missteps abound. Sarah's widowed father, Billy Hurlihy, with six adult kids, is seeing at least two women. And he and Sarah aren't the only Hurlihys with romantic challenges. Her brother Michael, for one, has a rocky marriage that Mother Teresa, his St. Bernard, just may put 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 is a perfect beach read that melts the heartache of dating with warmth and humor.
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Hardback Editions
November 2002 : Hardback
| Title: Must Love Dogs Author(s): Claire Cook ISBN: 0-7862-4799-1 / 978-0-7862-4799-8 (USA edition) Publisher: Thorndike Press Availability: Amazon Amazon UK More details... |
July 2002 : Hardback
| Title: Must Love Dogs: A Novel Author(s): Claire Cook ISBN: 0-670-03106-2 / 978-0-670-03106-1 (USA, AU, or UK edition) Publisher: Viking Adult Availability: Amazon Amazon UK Amazon CA More details... |
Paperback Editions
July 2005 : Paperback
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June 2004 : Mass Market Paperback
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July 2003 : Mass Market Paperback
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2003 : Paperback
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January 2002 : Paperback
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2002 : Paperback
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Audio Editions
August 2005 : Audio CD
| Title: Must Love Dogs Author(s): Claire Cook ISBN: 0-7861-8000-5 / 978-0-7861-8000-4 (USA edition) Publisher: Blackstone Audiobooks Availability: Amazon Amazon UK Amazon CA More details... |
August 2005 : Audio CD
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August 2005 : Audio Cassette
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July 2005 : Audio Cassette
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June 2005 : Audio CD
| Title: Must Love Dogs: Movie Tie-in [UNABRIDGED] Author(s): Claire Cook ISBN: 0-7861-7777-2 / 978-0-7861-7777-6 (USA edition) Publisher: Blackstone Audiobooks Availability: Amazon Amazon UK Amazon CA More details... |
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May 2011 : Kindle edition
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