The book you’ll want
to read with your women friends
and give to your women friends
– every one of them!

CHEAP CABERNET
A FRIENDSHIP
Cathie Beck 

www.cathiebeck.com 
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Voice / Hyperion Books
Trade Paperback $14.99
ISBN-13   978-1-4013-4154-1
Memoir / women’s friendship

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“Cathie Beck’s wonderfully told and achingly poignant memoir will remind every woman to call her best friend right away to tell her how important their relationship is, and how she couldn’t survive without it  And, by the way, to run out and buy the heartbreaking book, Cheap Cabernet.”
– Iris Rainer Dart, Beaches

“This is a beautiful book about two remarkable women.  I read Cheap Cabernet in one breathless sitting.  I gulped it down and then I sat there and let the taste of love and sorrow and redemption linger for a long time.” 
– Alison Smith, Name All the Animals

“Cheap Cabernet is a wickedly smart and poignant tale of two women’s lives—unexpectedly and irreversibly altered—when both are at their primes. It is a page-turner, impossible to put down, and lodges forever in its readers’ psyches. More than a satisfying read,  Cheap Cabernet is a celebration of all parts of women’s lives—championing every single second of any person’s existence—and celebrating the dark, the light, the wonderful ‘chapters’ that ultimately make up a life.” 
—Kirkus Reviews

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CHEAP CABERNET  is available from Voice / Hyperion Books, distributed by HarperCollins Publishers, or from your preferred wholesaler.  Be sure to contact the publisher for more information about this title. 

If you are interested in scheduling an event, interview, or book club event or phoner with author Cathie Beck, please contact Allison McGeehon, Publicity Manager, Hyperion & Voice, 917-661-2054 / allison.mcgeehon@abc.com.   Cathie Beck lives in Colorado and is available for events in the MBA region on only a limited basis. Contact the publisher to inquire further.

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ABOUT THE BOOK

“I didn’t know that people come into our lives and sometimes, if you’re really lucky, you have the chance to love them, that sometimes they stay and sometimes you can truly depend on them.” 
—from CHEAP CABERNET: A FRIENDSHIP

“Cathie Beck’s Cheap Cabernet is a bracing story of a woman who took the crappy hand life had dealt her and turned it into a big win. With an awe-inspiring stamina, she kept going long past the point other people –like me –would’ve quit. I devoured this empowering and very funny memoir from the first page.”
– Julie Klam, Please Excuse My Daughter

Cathie Beck knows that a life-changing journey can start with a glass of cheap cabernet. In her touching and wildly funny memoir, CHEAP CABERNET (Voice; July 20, 2010; Trade Paperback; $14.99), she shares with us how a brief, bittersweet friendship taught her that with enough humor and daring, it’s never too late to do or be anything. This is the stirring saga of how she comes to terms with the painful truths about her friend, as well as her own past, while working her way out of poverty and learning to appreciate all of life’s moments. 

Cathie was just 21 years old when her husband abandoned her and her two young children, taking their car and their life savings. Despite the hardships, she worked tirelessly with a fierce determination to ensure a safe and loving upbringing for her children. It wasn’t until her late thirties that she was finally able to exhale after so many years of trying to survive.

But there was one problem: Having devoted all of her time to raising and supporting her children, Cathie didn’t have any friends of her own. With both of her children away at college, she was alone. Always a troubleshooter, she placed an advertisement in the local newspaper to start a group called WOW: Women on the Way. Out of this group, a friendship formed: one of those meteoric, life-altering bonds that comes along once in a lifetime…if you’re lucky.

A savvy businesswoman and opinionated artist, Denise had the flair for life that Cathie had lost long ago. These two women connected immediately, embarking on a four-year odyssey fraught with adultery, sensational food, and illegal travel, all while struggling to conquer the limits of an illness destroying a woman at her prime—Denise suffered from multiple sclerosis and the time she had left was dwindling.

Beck’s heartfelt remembrance of women’s friendship demonstrates the power it has to transform a woman’s life, no matter what her age. Through the good times and bad, through tears and laughter, and, most importantly, over a large glass of wine, CHEAP CABERNET explores what living—and dying—is really about. Beck proves that what does not kill you will only make you stronger—and that it doesn’t hurt to have a little help.

CHEAP CABERNET is a wonderful book club selection, and — of course — it’s a great book to discuss over a glass or two of wine!  Download the reading guide for more information.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR 

Cathie Beck’s work has appeared in publications including Glimmer Train, Zoetrope, The Los Angeles Times, The Denver Post, The Rocky Mountain News, The Denver Business Journal, The Boulder Daily Camera, Poets & Writer’s Magazine, and Writer’s Digest. She is the recipient of writing awards from both the Louisiana and Denver Women’s Press Clubs, and of the Scripps-Howard Award for Excellence in Journalism. Having received her M.A. in Creative Writing from the University of Colorado at Boulder, Beck is currently “The Wine Wench” columnist for ColoradoBiz magazine and KUVO Public Radio. Cheap Cabernet is her first book.  

A portion of the sales of this book will go directly to the National Multiple Sclerosis Society to help further research.