Nookietown: A Novel

by V.C. Chickering

Overview

Recently divorced, 40-something single-mom, Lucy, is lonely, bored and craving physical connection. So, when her trusted long-time married friend, Nancy, begs Lucy to sleep with her husband to save her marriage, Lucy goes for it. It's such a success, the two friends invent a town-wide underground barter system whereby Nancy's married girlfriends sub-contract Lucy's divorcee friends to sleep with their husbands so they don't have to as often. It's a win, win, win- for a while. Then it all goes to hell in a hand-basket.

Laugh-out-loud funny, emotionally provocative and at times racy, Nookietown is a story of risk-taking, marriage, honesty and desire, and what one woman rationalizes in order to get what she wants.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781250064813
Publisher:	St. Martin's Press
Publication date:	02/23/2016
Pages:	368
Product dimensions:	5.40(w) x 8.30(h) x 1.20(d)

About the Author

V.C. Chickering has written for Comedy Central, MTV, Lifetime, TLC, Discovery, NickMom and Oxygen television networks as well as for BUST, Cosmo, and The Washington Post magazines. She's written screenplays; has a local newspaper column entitled, Pith Monger; and a blog. She lives in New Jersey with her family where she also writes and performs witty, original songs for the alt-bluegrass/indi-jazz band, Tori Erstwhile & The Montys. Nookietown is her first novel.

Editorial Reviews

"With vivid characters, quick dialogue, and over-the-top situations, Chickering's debut novel alternates between moments of true hilarity and deep introspection." —Kirkus Reviews

"Chickering holds nothing back in this debut that can only be described as a Fifty Shades of Grey for the married and divorced set. She dives in with a plethora of graphic sex scenes, creating a blend of erotica with a strong dose of women's fiction. Sure to be a hit among women seeking a feisty, thrilling, and risqué read." —Library Journal

From the Publisher

01/01/2016
Lucy Larken, a fortysomething, divorced single mom, is craving an orgasm with a man instead of a device. While at lunch with her married friends, the topic turns to Lucy's "problem." It's all a joke until her married friend Nancy begs Lucy to sleep with her husband, Ted. Lucy, so hungry for sex, takes up Nancy on her offer. After Lucy's successful sexcapade with Ted, Nancy reports that her married life has become much better. Word gets around, and it turns out that a majority of the town's husbands require more sex than their wives are able to give. This discovery leads Nancy and Lucy to start a side business, The Program, in which wives can subcontract men out to "helpers" who will satisfy them sexually, with their wives' permission. The program is hugely successful, but not without its pitfalls, and there's a twist that readers won't see coming. VERDICT Chickering holds nothing back in this debut that can only be described as a Fifty Shades of Grey for the married and divorced set. She dives in with a plethora of graphic sex scenes, creating a blend of erotica with a strong dose of women's fiction. Sure to be a hit among women seeking a feisty, thrilling, and risqué read.—Erin Holt, Williamson Cty. P.L., Franklin, TN

Library Journal