Blissful Birthday: A Novel

On this beguiling novel, Danielle Metal tells the story of three very totally different individuals, every of whom reaches an important turning level on the identical day—a time to blow out the candles, say goodbye to the previous, and make a want for the long run.


 

Valerie Wyatt is the queen of gracious dwelling. Since her long-ago divorce, she’s created a profitable TV present and reached the top of her career, with a camera-ready life in her Fifth Avenue penthouse. So why is she so depressed? As a result of all of the hours together with her private coach, hairdressers, and beauty surgeons can’t fudge the reality: Valerie is popping sixty.

 

Valerie’s daughter, April, spends each final ounce of her vitality on her fashionable one-of-a-kind restaurant in downtown New York. She has no love life and no prospects. Prepared or not, although, April’s life is about to alter, in a tumultuous transformation that begins the morning it hits her: She’s thirty. And what does she have to point out for it?

 

Jack Adams is probably the most charismatic sports activities analyst on TV. Twelve years after retiring from the NFL, he nonetheless has his choose of probably the most fascinating twentysomething girls. However Jack wakes up on his fiftieth birthday, his again thrown out of whack, feeling yearly his age.

 

In a novel brimming with heat and perception, starting on one birthday and ending on one other, Valerie, April, and Jack uncover that life itself is usually a celebration—and that its best items are at all times a shock.

BONUS: This version comprises an excerpt from Danielle Metal’s
Mates Perpetually.