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The Goddess Rules

by Clare Naylor
Rosalyn Landor
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Here’s the delightful new novel from Clare Naylor, whose sleeper hit Dog Handling was one of Cosmopolitan’s Best Beach Reads for 2002. Fresh and fun, The Goddess Rules is an outrageous, wry, and razor-sharp portrait of a girl who thinks her life is just fine–until she meets a woman who swears by the belief that life is meant to be fabulous.

When obsessed pet owners have pooches or kitties they want immortalized on canvas, Kate Disney is the artist of choice. From her shed (which doubles as a studio and apartment) in London’s Primrose Hill, Kate caters to the whims of the rich and famous while herself living a decidedly bohemian existence. The problem is, she has a tendency to cater to her on-again, way-off-again boyfriend as well. Jake is so erratic, that most of her friends don’t understand why she even bothers. But it’s hard to fall out of love with a man who writes her songs and calls her “Angel”–even if he disappears for weeks at a time.
Luckily for Kate, Mirabelle Moncur isn’t buying any of that claptrap. Mirri was an actress, a legend in her time. Now, at age sixty, she’s given up on fame and men and lives in Africa, where she raises lion cubs. But her reclusive nature has done nothing to dull her beauty, mar her incredible figure, or dampen her outrageous joie de vivre.
After sweeping into London to have Kate paint a portrait of her favorite cub, Mirri seizes hold of Kate’s life–from the baggy wardrobe to the hopeless taste in men. Under Mirri’s tutelage, Kate learns to dance on tables with abandon, drink like a dockworker, and flirt like a goddess. And when her old friend Louis reenters the picture, she begins to see things in a whole new light. But Mirri has secrets that hint at a less than divine future. Now it’s Kate’s turn to teach Mirri a thing or two about life, love, and being fabulous.

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  • Release date

    March 8, 2005

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    • OverDrive Listen audiobook

      • ISBN: 9780739353530
      • File size: 367582 KB
      • Duration: 12:45:47

  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • AudioFile Magazine
      When Mirabelle Moncur, film star, comes to London to stay with her friend Leonard, she brings her glamorous aura, along with her pet lion cub, and begins to administer the benefits of her romantic experience to Kate, who lives and paints in a shed at the back of Leonard's house. Rosalyn Landor narrates these characters just as one would expect them to sound. She is the French Mirabelle, with a perfect accent and mercurial mood changes. And she is an excellent Kate, who has such difficulties with her rotten boyfriend. Landor performs so well that it would be fun to live next door to these characters and never have to say good-bye. J.P. (c) AudioFile 2005, Portland, Maine
    • Publisher's Weekly

      February 7, 2005
      The goddess of this entertaining fourth novel (and first Ballantine hardcover) by British author Naylor (Dog Handling
      , etc.) is an aging French screen star named Mirabelle Moncur. We know Mirri is French because she says non
      and merde
      and because she likes sex and knows her way around men. Heroine Kate Disney also likes sex, but she doesn't know her way around men, especially Jake, her caddish lout of a boyfriend. When Mirri commissions Kate, a painter of animal portraits, to immortalize her pet lion cub, the two become friends; soon Mirri is teaching Kate how to dress properly, stand up for herself and enjoy a man's attentions. For a time, Kate is a model student: she romps in Capri with Felix, a French playboy, and has casual sex in a swimming pool. The supporting characters are pat romantic comedy types: there's Kate's appropriately Byronic suitor, Lewis; her reliable best friend, Tanya; and her older, gay mentor, Leonard. The subplot, involving Mirri's search for her one true love, is engaging, as are the multiple twists of the main plot. When Jake returns to the scene, relentlessly courting and then winning the affections of a newly free-spirited Kate, Mirri's disappointment is palpable. The action Mirri takes to bring Kate to her senses is predictable but satisfying, which is also an apt description of this light, fun read. Agent, Carole Blake.

    • AudioFile Magazine
      Kate Disney paints portraits of beloved pets. When she's commissioned to paint "BeBe," a pet lion owned by film star Mirabelle Moncur, her life takes a dramatic turn. Mirabelle is a 60-year-old sex goddess who vets Kate's lovers, Jake and Louis. Anne Flosnick keeps the action flowing and the accents sharp as Kate and Mirabelle teach each other about relationships. Friendship abounds, and the goddess of love takes over. Flosnick patiently and persistently keeps the narrative going in a straight line toward the perfect love of a woman's life. M.B.K. (c) AudioFile 2005, Portland, Maine

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