Swing Set
“Fifty Shades of Grey” times three…
Who has not thought about trading in a husband or wife – totally – for an evening? The burdens of adulthood are slowly crushing the life (but not the lust) out of Tom Visser, police chief of Birchfield, Massachusetts. His wife Patti, busy raising their three children, vibrates neither with Tom’s angst nor his libido. Dr. Joan Stroker, an expert in Flemish counterpoint, is furiously writing an erotic novel that will make her the envy of academe. As her deadline approaches, Joan realizes she knows little about the art of love and even less about writing fiction. Her plight seems to amuse husband Marcus, a businessman besotted with French opera and, unbeknown to Joan, his mistress Wren. Enter libertine philosopher Cody Gunn and his delicious consort Lydia, who leave sunny Santa Monica to experience the rigors of New England. Lydia will be teaching heliotelepathy (whatever that is) at Birchfield Academy while Cody pens deep thoughts about the pilgrims. Bored silly within a week, Cody decides to open a swingers club in the Birchfield woods. When, miraculously, Tom and Joan convince their spouses to accompany them there, six formerly sane adults find themselves caught in a sexual typhoon far from harbor. As Priapus collides with Venus, their “no strings attached” couplings are hilarious, bawdy, full of wonder, and ultimately life changing.
PRAISE
“A cannonade of manic moments in the sexual Armageddon of Eva Hathaway… a screaming meemie of a randy, comic first novel, a marathon of stand-up wisecracking that just might be a sleeper.”
Kirkus Reviews
“A dazzling new woman writer has written a hilariously sexy novel. Delightful, rollicking, erotic!”
UPI
Fantastic – a racy romp by a multi-talented author who revels in puns and luxuriates in sensuous sex scenes…has fun manipulating her colorful cast of characters and keeps the reader laughing from beginning to end.
Cleveland Plain Dealer
“A mordantly funny, wonderfully wry first novel. Weber portrays each character with enchanting humor and poignancy, and the resolution of Eva’s plight is memorable.”
Publishers Weekly
“An absolute delight…a first novel of humor and passion…Weber presents a well-wrought story replete with a marvelous main character and astonishing detail…downright riveting.”
Los Angeles Herald Examiner
“A witty and wicked novel that’s like a breath of fresh air…Eva plunges into the 1980s, poking fun at propriety, relationships, marriage, neurotic Jewish men, uptight WASPs, children, and just about everything else.”
Richmond Times Dispatch
“Weber’s fresh, brash voice and wacky humor are reminiscent of Mark Twain and Fran Liebowitz at their most curmudgeonly. This is a wingdinger of a first novel with a voice so audible it tickles the ear. Eva’s bed marathons…are laid out with a ribaldry that would make Tom Jones blush.”
New Woman
“The book of the season…zany, raunchy, sexy.”
John Barkham Reviews