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When Cass attends a school reunion, she has no idea that her life is about to be changed forever. Feeling uneasy in the company of her old friends, she reflects that she is ashamed to talk about her last forty years. Whatever happened to the old Cass, who left school so full of hope and talent?
Re-united, Cass and her friends form themselves into the Crone Club, in which each of them pledges to recover and realise the dreams and aspirations of their youth. Nothing is going to stop these women having fun and not a single one of them has any intention of 'acting her age.'

“A novel that is very hard to put down……This is a wonderful example of the power of female friendship at its strongest……I’d recommend this book to anyone who is feeling a bit lost and disheartened with the world, no matter what age you are.”
Elizabeth Wright (Best Chick Lit)

This book is filled with wonderful and colourful characters…... I loved that this novel celebrated crones everywhere!”
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The Crone Club eBook S V Peddle

I was some way into this book, THE CRONE CLUB, before starting to think the story had more depth than I originally thought. I was thinking, `Stereotypical characterisation, lack of subtlety, no spark' but it slowly became more than that and I found myself enjoying it.
The story begins with a class reunion, the gang now women of that magic age, 60--making them Boomers. Many haven't met again since leaving school and they're all interested in what each has accomplished in life. There are the porn star twins, the rich, the bitch, the professionals, the housewife, the widow and ... the missing. They form The Crone Club and set each other two tasks: a dream to realise and a challenge to accomplish.
The book deals with rape and how attitudes have changed over the years. There's also controlling husbands, cancer, charity and third world hunger--some very big issues. They receive surface treatment only, no in-depth discussion, but then I don't think that's what the author was intending. It's about mature people overcoming obstacles--yes, just because you're 60 it doesn't mean you've got it all figured out--and written in such a way that you don't think of the morals being presented.
Bambi is the fairy godmother who takes everyone in, pays their bills and looks after them, which is very convenient for allowing characters to not find themselves in true-to-life no-way-out situations.
Essentially it's about women enjoying themselves and empowering each other.
Are they successful? Finding out makes for a light read encompassing comedy, poignancy and drama as you follow each character's path while they pursue their goals.
I believe it's the first in a series, so we'll be able to follow the Crone Club's development.

Product details File Size 742 KB Print Length 298 pages Publication Date March 8, 2012 Sold by  Digital Services LLC Language English ASIN B007IRFM1U

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The Crone Club eBook S V Peddle Reviews

The novel begins with several women gathered together for a school reunion, and the subsequent club (The Crone Club) which they form, in order to remain in contact. The Crone Club demands of its members that each woman have a dream and a challenge, state what each is, and take steps to realize both. The premise of the book is to follow a few of the women through as they come to realize their potential and reinvent themselves in their sixties. The main character, Cass, is the one with the most to gain as she is in an abusive marriage, and has given up her hope of playing the piano and performing pieces she has written to an audience.

The book is somewhat black and white in its characterizations; some are evil and the others are good. Susan is evil, Cass and George are good. Cass's husband, Frank, is supremely evil and Cass's daughter is too, until much later when she undergoes a character transformation and becomes good. Everything seems to happen quickly. The reunion, then George shows up at Cass's, the trip to Bambi's, the formation of the club, the separation of Cass from her husband, the reunion of George and James. It seemed as if nothing happened in any of the lives of the characters until the reunion and then everything happened all at once. I wished for some feeling of a long term relationship instead of the closeness that suddenly developed between them after forty years when none of them had been in contact with any of the others. Some of the plotting seemed convenient; Bambi is rich (the owner of a chain of upscale salons) and can afford to hire Cass as a personal assistant after Frank has cut off Cass's funds. Bambi even hires Cass's granddaughter, Lucy, after Lucy sides with her grandmother.

I was drawn to the story and found myself wanting to get back to it to find out what happened next. I wanted to applaud Cass whenever she stood up to nasty Frank but I wondered why it took her so long to do it. Perhaps because he had recently retired and she was forced to spend more time with him and finally realized what a bully he was. I was glad to see her get out of that relationship and regain her confidence as a musician and a composer.

This novel is a good reminder that it's never too late to become what we were meant to be. It's a good example of baby boomer literature; that just because we reach our later years doesn't mean we are done just yet. We have a lot of living to do, and this book allows us to remember that's possible. A good read, with some quirky characters, along with some who are more conventional and some who were just plain mean. A good mix!
This is a story of a group of women in their sixties who meet up at a reunion and decide not to lose one another again. They become the "Crone's Club" celebrating the third cycle of the moon, the waning moon which represented the Crone, the wise old woman. They each adopt a challenge and a dream, and support one another in striving for that dream. This, the first book, is mostly about Cass and George. The others will be featured as the series continues.

I like the book. I like the concept of a group of women supporting one another. I love George's car, and the signs were hilarious. I like the general plot of the book, the trials and tribulations of Cass as she gains the strength to remove herself from a bad marriage and George as she overcomes a horror from her past. I just wish I'd gotten to know the women, especially Cass, a little better before the events started snowballing. I'd have felt more sympathetic as Cass struggled if I'd understood early on why she was so passive. It seemed that we'd hardly gotten a clue that there might me some dark secret related to George before we found out her whole story. In fact, everything happened at such a high rate of speed that there was little time to speculate about anything before it happened. I also had to wonder why Susan was ever invited to their original gathering, since she's always been such a bully, but she and Frank do make perfectly evil villains.

All in all, I recommend this book as an enjoyable romp with a group of fun-loving, supportive women who keep life interesting.
I was some way into this book, THE CRONE CLUB, before starting to think the story had more depth than I originally thought. I was thinking, `Stereotypical characterisation, lack of subtlety, no spark' but it slowly became more than that and I found myself enjoying it.
The story begins with a class reunion, the gang now women of that magic age, 60--making them Boomers. Many haven't met again since leaving school and they're all interested in what each has accomplished in life. There are the porn star twins, the rich, the bitch, the professionals, the housewife, the widow and ... the missing. They form The Crone Club and set each other two tasks a dream to realise and a challenge to accomplish.
The book deals with rape and how attitudes have changed over the years. There's also controlling husbands, cancer, charity and third world hunger--some very big issues. They receive surface treatment only, no in-depth discussion, but then I don't think that's what the author was intending. It's about mature people overcoming obstacles--yes, just because you're 60 it doesn't mean you've got it all figured out--and written in such a way that you don't think of the morals being presented.
Bambi is the fairy godmother who takes everyone in, pays their bills and looks after them, which is very convenient for allowing characters to not find themselves in true-to-life no-way-out situations.
Essentially it's about women enjoying themselves and empowering each other.
Are they successful? Finding out makes for a light read encompassing comedy, poignancy and drama as you follow each character's path while they pursue their goals.
I believe it's the first in a series, so we'll be able to follow the Crone Club's development.