The Cabernet Club: A Novel (ebook)

Debbie Gordon plans to seize a second chance at life, moving to Florida to break free from her past and discover the adventure she’s always dreamed of—before her daughter ropes her back into the family drama.

At 68, Debbie Gordon has six months to get a life. Except for a brief, magical year in Manhattan when she was 21, the long-divorced, former legal secretary has always lived in her sleepy New England hometown, always the good girl, the funny girl, the responsible mom, who has learned to buck up when bad things happen. When her only child Lori and family unexpectedly move away, Debbie can finally retire and live the life she’s always wanted, but that life is in Florida. Her helicopter daughter has other ideas and begs her to move in with her in Delaware. They come to an Debbie has six months (the term of her rental lease) to find happiness in Florida, or she will move to Delaware (likely becoming the family’s unpaid nanny). A story of mother-daughter relationships and finding yourself again after retirement.

About the Authors

In the late 1980s and early 1990s, co-author Rona S. Zable (aged 88 at the time of her death in 2023), had published three YA novels with Bantam Doubleday Dell. She later worked for 20 years as editor of SeniorScope, the largest senior publication in New England. Her daughter and co-author Margie Zable Fisher (age 56) is a former publicist and currently a writer and editor, published in the New York Times, AARP, Fortune Well, Next Avenue, and more. She is a member of the American Society of Journalists and Authors (ASJA).