What is Julie Mae Cohen reading?

Featured at Writers Read: Julie Mae Cohen, author of Eat, Slay, Love: A Novel.

Her entry begins:

Right now I’m reading Dear Miss Lake by AJ Pearce (to be published in the US in August 2025). This is the fourth and last in the WWII-set series of novels about Emmeline Lake, a plucky would-be agony aunt at Women’s Friend magazine, dealing with the problems of women on the home front and her own problems living in London during the Blitz. The novels are hilarious, with a cast of endearing characters. They celebrate courage in all its forms, from making cakes without any eggs or sugar to facing down the devastation of a bomb. While they’re goodhearted and uplifting novels, they don’t shy away from the reality of...[read on]

About Eat, Slay, Love, from the publisher:

International bestselling author Julie Mae Cohen returns with a delicious new novel about three very different women and what unites them: the man they’re holding hostage

A friend will help you move on. A best friend will help you move his body.

Marina gave up her career as a chef to raise her children, but her divorce has left her harried, lonely, and the black sheep of her family. It’s also left her in dire financial straits.

Opal is a post-menopausal fitness guru who spends her days chasing likes and followers in an industry that worships youth. Even her glossy online persona can’t mask her checkered past.

Lilah is a shy and optimistic librarian who spends her days tending to the stacks, until she wins an unbelievable sum in the lottery. With a growing bank account and a dashing fiancé, life seems too good to be true—and it just might be.

These three women have nothing in common except for one thing: the man who’s been lying to them all . . . and who they are now holding hostage in Marina’s basement.

As this shared secret brings them closer together, other, deadlier problems come crashing into their lives. Can they put their differences aside to save themselves—and each other?

Eat, Slay, Love is a raucous novel about friendship, finding joy, and becoming your best self, even if that sometimes involves kidnap and murder.

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