Jenny Gardiner

WINGING IT:
A Memoir of Caring for a Vengeful Parrot
Who's Determined to Kill Me
by Jenny Gardiner
ISBN-10: 1439157618
ISBN-13: 978-1439157619
Simon Spotlight Entertainment
Release date: March 2010

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"As sweet as a song and sharp as a beak, Winging It really soars as a memoir about family -- children and husbands, feathers and fur -- and our capacity to keep loving though life may occasionally bite." -Wade Rouse, bestselling author of At Least in the City Someone Would Hear Me Scream, and Confessions of A Prep School Mommy Handler

Jenny Gardiner's hilarious memoir will have you alternately laughing and crying, and watching the skies for winged pets out for your blood. --Award-winning author of Catching Genius, Kristy Kiernan

SLEEPING WITH WARD CLEAVER
by Jenny Gardiner
ISBN-10: 0505527472
ISBN-13: 978-0505527479
Dorchester Publishing
Release date: Feb. 2008

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*Winner, American Title III contest
*2nd place, MMRWA Happily Ever After contest

Claire Doolittle realizes her life hasn't quite met up with her expectations. Overwhelmed with the demands of motherhood and life in general, it doesn't help that the funny, romantic and thoughtful man she once married has turned into a real-life version of Ward Cleaver, the famously dull, bossy father from the 1950's sitcom Leave it to Beaver. And the last person in the world Claire ever imagined having to sleep with for the rest of her life is a man whose sex appeal more closely resembles that of George Washington than George Clooney.

Throw in an ex-fiance who returns via e-mail to try to woo Claire back with promises of what was, and a sexy young colleague of husband Jack's, whom Claire suspects of some sort of hanky panky, and you have the ingredients for a mid-life crisis that threatens to plunge Claire's world into chaos.

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"If you enjoy funny, laugh-out-loud books, stories of women going through mid-life crises, you will enjoy SLEEPING WITH WARD CLEAVER. Although the situations are serious, the author looks at them with such a comedic bent that readers will laugh, even when the situation is somewhat grim... Well written and well paced, SLEEPING WITH WARD CLEAVER is a romp and a lot of fun -- it is a book readers are sure to enjoy." - Marilyn Heyman, Romance Reviews Today

"Fast paced and funny...Sleeping With Ward Cleaver is a clever and engaging romance with humor and heart." - Carrie Padgett, Armchair Interviews

"Sleeping With Ward Cleaver is the most refreshing book I have read in quite some time." - Maggie Grinnell, Rose & Thorn e-zine book reviews

"This debut novel, winner of the American Title III competition, is an engaging, thought-provoking and humorous insight into what happens when harried meets surly. You won't be sleeping til you've finished it." - ChickLitClub.com book reviews

"An engaging look at a middle age marriage as the two lead characters have become cemented in their ways and spontaneity no longer exists to unite them in fun. Claire is fabulous as she wants more than being Mrs. Cleaver mother to five, but her Jack expects her to meet his list of demands, keep the kids in line, and take care of his needs; he no longer seems to care about hers. SLEEPING WITH WARD CLEAVER is a deep look at marriage as the relationship goes into the phase of raising children." -GenreGoRoundReviews.blogspot.com

"Jenny Gardiner's debut novel offers a boisterous and engaging glimpse of the realities of marriage. As brash and funny as it is moving and insightful, SLEEPING WITH WARD CLEAVER will leave readers wanting more from this delightful new author." -Kristy Kiernan, author of Catching Genius

"You won't kick Jenny Gardiner's debut book out of bed for eating crackers! Sleeping with Ward Cleaver is a sassy and sexy read." - Eileen Cook author of Unpredictable

"Honest, real, and wickedly funny, Sleeping with Ward Cleaver is a keeper!" -Jane Porter, author of Flirting with Forty and Odd Mom Out

"Alternately giddy and moving, Jenny Gardiner's Sleeping with Ward Cleaver is a novel that would leave the original Ward shaking his head...but his wife June would be clapping her hands and twirling her pearls." ~ Lauren Baratz-Logsted, author of How Nancy Drew Saved My Life and Vertigo

"Quirky, hilarious, thought-provoking; Jenny Gardiner is my new favorite read." -Suzanne Macpherson, author of The Forever Summer and Hysterical Blondeness

"With its razor sharp (and, at times, deliciously bawdy) wit, as well as its uncanny insight into the secret lives of married women, Sleeping with Ward Cleaver is certain to both resonate with and delight wives and mothers everywhere. Jenny Gardiner is a refreshing new voice in women's fiction." Bev Katz Rosenbaum, author of I was a Teenage Popsicle and Beyond Cool