Product Review Club: Six Weeks to Toxic
"Women break up with men all the time. But there are no rules for breaking up with your best friend…"
Here's the latest offering for our Product Review Club.
Here's the latest offering for our Product Review Club. "Smart, savvy and sexy, Six Weeks to Toxic is Louisa McCormack’s wildly witty debut novel that delves into the complex world of female friendships gone awry.
Meet Bess: a cute and quirky sound artist for feature films with a punk-rock past and a penchant for pop philosophy. Meet Maxine: a sleek and strapping freelance journalist who’s privileged to the point of confusion. Both women work in Hollywood North, and the two have been best friends for sixteen years.
Cut to New Year’s Day, 2000, where the story opens with a headache and a hangover. Bess finds herself facing thirty-five, single, struggling to make ends meet and stuck with a bad case of the existential blues. Meanwhile, Maxi has just landed a new job, a new home and a hot new man. But the tables turn when Maxi’s relationship begins to sour and Bess finds happiness in all the right places. The two begin to drift, and by Valentine’s Day, 2000, sixteen years of friendship turns into six weeks of toxic.
Set in the hip urban milieu of well-connected thirty-somethings, Six Weeks to Toxic is a biting, honest and wildly funny look at the complexity of female friendships.
A portion of the proceeds from the sale of the novel will be donated to CODE, a Canadian charitable organization that has been promoting education and literacy in the developing world for over forty years.
Louisa McCormack writes regularly for FLARE and FASHION. She was a host of “The Chatroom” on TalkTV and has also contributed to CBC Newsworld and CBC Radio One. McCormack was born in Montreal, Quebec, and now lives in Toronto, Ontario."
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Meet Bess: a cute and quirky sound artist for feature films with a punk-rock past and a penchant for pop philosophy. Meet Maxine: a sleek and strapping freelance journalist who’s privileged to the point of confusion. Both women work in Hollywood North, and the two have been best friends for sixteen years.
Cut to New Year’s Day, 2000, where the story opens with a headache and a hangover. Bess finds herself facing thirty-five, single, struggling to make ends meet and stuck with a bad case of the existential blues. Meanwhile, Maxi has just landed a new job, a new home and a hot new man. But the tables turn when Maxi’s relationship begins to sour and Bess finds happiness in all the right places. The two begin to drift, and by Valentine’s Day, 2000, sixteen years of friendship turns into six weeks of toxic.
Set in the hip urban milieu of well-connected thirty-somethings, Six Weeks to Toxic is a biting, honest and wildly funny look at the complexity of female friendships.
A portion of the proceeds from the sale of the novel will be donated to CODE, a Canadian charitable organization that has been promoting education and literacy in the developing world for over forty years.
Louisa McCormack writes regularly for FLARE and FASHION. She was a host of “The Chatroom” on TalkTV and has also contributed to CBC Newsworld and CBC Radio One. McCormack was born in Montreal, Quebec, and now lives in Toronto, Ontario."
Looks like a fun read! We have a couple of copies to give away. If you're in the Product Review Club and would like to review this book, email us.
Reviewers should be in their 20s or 30s, love ChickLit, and agree to review it within 2 weeks of receiving it.
Read our review!
Discuss this item in our forums
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