Real Women Eat Beef

Tracy McArdle

• Publisher: Pocket Books
• Year: 2007
• eBook ISBN: 9781416531364
• Topic: Literature
• Subtopic: Literature General
• Index: Literature

New and improved -- now with added goats! Welcome to advertising executive Jill Campbell's life, version 2.0. Gone are the cheating ex-husband and the chaos of New York. Brand-new features include a prestigious job at a Boston ad agency, a stronger father-daughter relationship, and a gorgeous old farmhouse. It's bliss -- until a snazzy car account evaporates, leaving her branding...beef. Un-snazzy, un-sexy beef -- which she hasn't eaten in twenty years. Talk about false advertising. Owning a two-hundred-year-old house in a one-store hamlet is not the nirvana Jill imagined, even with the addition of a dog, two needy goats, and unexpected encounters with the town's most eligible -- and probably only -- bachelor. Peace of mind sold separately. Wondering how she sold herself on this new existence, Jill forms an unlikely bond with Sarah Watson, a feisty twelve-year-old with an aversion to training bras, makeup, and all the trappings that supposedly make sixth grade worthwhile. While Sarah teaches Jill the basics of home maintenance and animal husbandry, Jill helps Sarah deal with impending womanhood. And as men start to complicate matters, every idea Jill ever had about love and advertising gets turned on its head. Suddenly, her life looks nothing like the picture on the box, but it could turn out to be exactly what she didn't know she needed.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Also by Tracy McArdle
• Title Page
• Copyright
• Dedication
• Acknowledgments
• Chapter One Circle Back
• Chapter Two Adding Bells and Whistles
• Chapter Three On the Same Page
• Chapter Four Apples to Apples
• Chapter Five Drinking the Kool-Aid
• Chapter Six A Slippery Slope
• Chapter Seven Low-Hanging Fruit
• Chapter Eight Touch Base
• Chapter Nine Heavy Lifting
• Chapter Ten Leveraging Key Assets
• Chapter Eleven Give It Arms and Legs
• Chapter Twelve Connect the Dots
• Chapter Thirteen Take a Step Back
• Chapter Fourteen Kick the Tires
• Chapter Fifteen Test the Waters
• Chapter Sixteen In Our Bandwidth
• Chapter Seventeen A Deeper Dive
• Chapter Eighteen Take It Offline
• Chapter Nineteen Go to the Mat
• Chapter Twenty The Honeymoon’s Over
• Chapter Twenty-one Getting Our Ducks in a Row
• Chapter Twenty-two Leaving Money on the Table
• Chapter Twenty-three Where the Rubber Meets the Road
• Chapter Twenty-four Think Outside the Box
• Chapter Twenty-five Thrown Under the Bus
• Chapter Twenty-six Nuts and Bolts
• Chapter Twenty-seven Block and Tackling
• Chapter Twenty-eight Dive on the Grenade
• Chapter Twenty-nine A Lot on Your Plate
• Chapter Thirty Internal Battle Cry
• Chapter Thirty-one Push Back
• Chapter Thirty-two Out of the Loop
• Chapter Thirty-three Putting Out Fires
• Chapter Thirty-four Leave Your Fingerprints
• Chapter Thirty-five Locked and Loaded
• Chapter Thirty-six Tying Up Loose Ends
• Epilogue
• Up Close and Personal with the Author