Olivia Goldsmith

Olivia Goldsmith was an American author, best known for her first novel The First Wives Club (1992), which was adapted into the movie The First Wives Club (1996). She was born Randy Goldfield in Dumont, New Jersey, but changed her name to Justine Goldfield and later to Justine Rendal. She took up writing following a divorce in which she said her husband got almost everything (including her Jaguar and the country house). A graduate of New York University, she was a partner at the management consultants Booz Allen Hamilton in New York prior to becoming a writer.

Bad Boy

A novel by

Olivia Goldsmith



"Witty and wonderful."
Sue Grafton



"Olivia Goldsmith at her best."
Nelson DeMille



Tracie's got a weakness for classic bad boys who seem too good to be true...and usually are.

Jon, on the other hand, loves Tracie-and not "just as a friend." But Jon is no bad boy. In fact, he's about as good as they come.

But when he convinces a skeptical Tracie to teach him some tricks of the trade, she turns him into a heartbreakingly hot bad boy-and soon it seems half Seattle's women want Jon to themselves. Including Tracie.

Dumping Billy


There's something magical about Billy Nolan. It's not just that the Brooklyn bar owner is wickedly handsome: It's that every woman he dates and dumps (and he dumps them all) immediately goes on to marry the next person she meets.The only woman seemingly immune to Billy's charms is feisty, upwardly mobile, 28-year-old Kate Jameson. She left Brooklyn for Manhattan the first chance she had, and she's not about to fall under the spell of a handsome cad from the old neighborhood. Besides, she's dating the eminently suitable Michael, a rising star in the world of academe. But perhaps the "Billy effect" will work for Kate's best friend, Bina Horowitz, who has fallen apart after her longtime fiancé broke off their engagement in order to work overseas and "explore his singleness."All Kate has to do is get Billy to date Bina and dump her-then wait for her wayward fiancé to return, and watch the magic happen. It's a great plan that at first seems to be working brilliantly. But the one thing Kate hasn't counted on is how Billy feels about it all...and how she begins to feel about Billy.

Fashionably Late


Karen Kahn is one of those women others envy: she's happily married, with a nice bank balance and heading her own fashion company. Now, at 40, she's on the verge of another career breakthrough and ready to take the plunge: Karen wants a baby. But she's lost the race against her biological clock.