I found this book at a school fete and I was particularly excited because I had never heard of cookie clubs before until a friend of my returned to Australia last year after living in the US for five years. This year she is looking at having her own cookie party!
"The Cookie Club" I guess could be categorised as chick lit of older chicks? Women's fiction might be a better description (I might need to do some research on how to work out what genre a book belongs to!). Set around an annual Christmas cookie club complete with rules, old friends, a new friend and cookies it discusses major life issues but looking back briefly on major life issues that have made each of the women the way they are.
Marnie, aka as Head Cookie Bitch, is the narrator. A single mother, two adult daughters and on the brink of becoming a grandmother. It is through her eyes that the story is told and the insight into each of the other women is based on her recollections of shared memories or shared confidences. Still birth, abusive relationships, adoption, childlessness, drug addiction, divorce and many other topics are touched on. Despite all this it is definitely a light read.
A touch I particularly liked was the recipe at the beginning of each chapter and the historical/cultural/symbol insight into different ingredients at the end of each chapter.
The book was a nice light read.
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