Adultery Diet

By Eva Cassady

Cheat on your husband, not on your diet

Eva Cassady is stuck in a marriage that's completely lost its luster. She's even envious of her twenty-year-old daughter, living la vie Parisienne (complete with les condoms) in France for a year. Somewhere inside, Eva knows she's still a woman with dreams and desires -- but her whole dull, status-quo existence can be summed up by the tyrannical numbers on her bathroom scale. At 176 pounds, is she just one more invisible, middle-aged woman who will never inspire lust in a man again?

Then fickle fortune -- via her job -- puts Eva back in touch with Michael Foresman, her passionate lover one unforgettable college spring break. Michael seems tr s interested in meeting up and rekindling some old sparks, but she can't possibly let him see her the way she looks now. With reborn fantasies burning through her blood, Eva starts dieting and exercising like a woman possessed...by passion.

With the pounds dropping away, Eva feels as if twenty years have rolled back as well. She feels young, sexy, desirable...and when Michael arrives, he obviously agrees. So now Eva has to make a choice. When a diet promises to change your life, just how big a change do you really want to make?

To every woman who has ever craved a spoonful of ice cream or agonized over the minefields of romance, this book is for you. It's witty, it's wonderful, it's smart and perceptive. The Adultery Diet is a light-hearted but emotionally honest look at life, love, letting go...and, of course, losing weight.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1416532722
• ISBN13: 9781416532729
• Release Date: August 2007
• Publisher: Gallery Books
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.3" x 8.2"

Customer Reviews

Very entertaining!!!!

I really was very pleasantly surprised by the comedy in this book, I actually did recommend it to all me friend. Good read, really enjoyed it.

Not for the dieter whose unhappily married but a fun read for others

This is a fun, fast read, and if you're struggling with your weight, I think it'll give you some incentive, as well as a few tricks to get and stay thin. Remember, it's fiction girls, but humor has its roots in the truth. Seriously, the narrator makes some saliant points about how women lose themselves in marriage and motherhood, but it's also cute. I enjoyed it, and I've never had a weight problem, so there! ;-)

Enjoyed It

I've often heard it said that when someone in a marriage starts changing drastically, there is often a new love interest involved. That's how it happened in this book. Middle-aged, empty nester Eva reconnected with a man from her past, and from her youth. Merely the thought of seeing him again set her off on an immense personal transformation, evident through her weight loss. At times the book was embarrassing honest. It was easy to see how women who are taken for granted by their partners respond to affection and attention - especially from someone who knew them when they were innocent, vibrant and young. It was intriguing to see if she would, indeed, take the plunge into a full-blown affair, and which path she would ultimately take in her life. A good read.

Great Read!

I loved this book. I read it in less than 30 hours it was so good - I couldn't put it down. It was easy to read, a great storyline, and really described the inner struggle that so many women / mothers face. I highly recommend this book.

Laughed myself thinner

In a culture obsessed both with misbehaving and with dieting, what a brilliant idea to bring the two together as Eva Cassady does in The Adultery Diet. It's not the extramarital activity that actually turns the heroine into a lettuce scarfing gym rat, but the desire to reclaim an earlier vision of herself, driven by an internet flirtation with an old lover. A seductive idea for any woman of a certain age. I found the book both laugh-out-loud funny and at moments wincingly honest.