Olivia Goldsmith - Bibliography

Bibliography

• The First Wives Club (1992), made into the movie The First Wives Club starring Bette Midler, Diane Keaton, and Goldie Hawn in 1996. The story deals with three friends who have been left by their husbands for younger women. After a friend (also a "first wife") kills herself due to her ex-husband's abuse, they decided to exact revenge on all four ex-husbands.
• Fashionably Late (1993) in which a young designer tries to handle her fashion house while dealing with her troubled marriage, adopting a child, and finding her birth mother.
• Flavor of the Month (1994), a satire of Hollywood following three stars of a hit TV show. One is a talented but plain actress gets plastic surgery to look younger and beautiful; the second is a dirt-poor Southern girl fleeing an abusive father; the third is the spoiled child of actors.
• Marrying Mom (1996), in which three thirty-something New Yorkers try to get a husband for their widowed mother so she'll stop interfering in their lives.
• The Bestseller (1996), tracking five people with novels as they adjust to the publishing game and try to see their books succeed.
• Switcheroo (1998), where a wife discovers that her husband is having an affair. When she meets the mistress, they're stunned to realize that, but for a twenty-year age gap, they look exactly alike. With makeup and surgery, they switch places to try and teach him a lesson.
• Young Wives (2000), a sort of flip side of "First Wives Club" where three twenty-something women discover their husbands are up to no good, from affairs to drug dealing and band together to get payback.
• Bad Boy (2001) in which a trendy Seattle reporter does an 'extreme-makeover' job on her best friend - a nerdy male computer programmer - to transform him 'from zero to hero.'
• Pen Pals (2002) in which an ambitious Wall Street financier agrees to take the rap for her boss in an insider dealing case. She finds herself abandoned by both her boss and her fiance, and ends up serving prison time. She then helps save the prison from a corporation trying to buy it out.
• Insiders (2002)- Smart and sassy wall street tycoon, Jennifer, agrees to take the rap for her boss' shady dealings. But after her fiancé lawyer fails to get her off the hook, Jennifer ends up in a harsh women's prison where her designer clothes and education count for nothing. On the inside, Jennifer discovers that working together, with unlikely partners in crime, is the only way out.
• Dumping Billy (2004), in which a woman notices that every time a woman is dumped by "Billy" she gets married to the next guy she meets. She thus attempts to set up a friend with him, hoping she'll be next after the breakup.
• Wish Upon A Star (2004) in which a low-level secretary is invited to go to London with one of her firm's top partners, only to be cheated upon by him there, forcing herself to carve a new life for herself in a strange city.