Olivia Goldsmith Dumping Billy

Dumping Billy

Olivia Goldsmith

Warner, Nov 2005, $13.95

ISBN: 044669505X

Unlike her "Bitches of Bushwick" female pals, whose only goals in life are marriage and children in a Brooklyn Forever haven Kate Jameson wanted more, which was why she fled was across the Bay into Manhattan. She worked hard at school and shockingly went to an Ivy College studying to become a psychologist. Her dreams seem answered as she lives a good singles life in Chelsea apartment and enjoys her work as the school psychologist at the exclusive Andrew Country Day school.

When Kate and Brooklyn's Barber Bar owner Billy Nolan meet, they feel an instant attraction. Kate's best friend, Elliot Winston and his significant other fear that Kate is determined to commit romantic suicide; as Billy not only lives in that third world nation Brooklyn, but also every time he dumps a woman she marries her next date. The gay couple worries about who Kate will marry; especially if she meets him in the barbaric outer boroughs. Kate decides DUMPING BILLY first will keep her from the Billy curse so she arranges for a Brooklyn B's to date him; not realizing how jealous she would become.

The latest Olivia Goldsmith's novel DUMPING BILLY is a zany romantic romp, but alas not one of the great author's better works (see THE FIRST WIVES CLUB) as the key players even Kate seem more like caricatures stereotyping an image rather than full blooded New Yorkers. The females do fare better than their male counterparts as the Brooklyn B girls provide some amusement with their contrast to the one who got away Kate even as she considers returning to the fold. Ms. Goldsmith's most dedicated fans will want to read this madcap cross-boroughs tale.

Harriet Klausner