WALLFLOWER IN BLOOM by Claire Cook

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Wallflower in Bloom

Claire Cook

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Claire Cook is a powerhouse author. If you don’t know of her (HOW can you NOT know of her?!) she is the author of Must Love Dogs, which was a major motion picture staring John Cusack! She wrote that book, her first one at 45. As I’m 43 now, and have written (omg, I have to think of how many I’ve written!)… 3-1/2 full novels and one novella, and I’m still struggling toward publication, she is an inspiration to me for certain.

Claire Cook’s characters are lively and fun, and leap from the pages. In particular, Deidre from Wallflower in Bloom – quite literally actually, you’ll find she leaps from the pages once you get reading, because she ends up on Dancing with the Stars! You’ve got to love a book that mixes reality TV into the story!

Deirdre Griffin has a great life; it’s just not her own. She’s the round-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, offbeat, yet with a thoroughly relatable and appealing heroine, Wallflower in Bloom is an original and deeply satisfying story of one woman who’s ready to take a leap into the spotlight, no matter where she lands.

Listen to an excerpt read by Claire here! I guarantee you will end up laughing!

Since part of Wallflower in Bloom has to do with a reality TV show, tell me if you have a favorite reality TV show. Lately, I’m addicted to two: Hardcore Pawn and Sister Wives. In fact, the other night I stayed up until 2 a.m. watching DVRed episodes. My husband came out and ‘caught’ me. He said, “Seriously! You are NOT 16 years old.” I got busted! LOL!

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