Cherries in the Snow: A Novel of Lust, Love, Loss, and Lipstick

by Emma Forrest

This witty, wise novel is the tale of Sadie, a young woman with a serious penchant for older men--who finally grows up once she takes the girliest of jobs--naming colors at a makeup company. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 140005365X
• ISBN13: 9781400053650
• Release Date: January 2005
• Publisher: Three Rivers Press (CA)
• Length: 269 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.2" x 8.0"

Customer Reviews

Sadie Steinberg Is A Gem!

Sadie Steinberg is a transplanted Brit living in New York City, with the fun job of naming new products for an edgy cosmetic company. She's also one of the most endearing heroines of the chick lit genre. She's goofy and childish and occasionally, even gross, but she totally captures your imagination and you wish you really knew someone like her. Cherries in the Snow will stay in your mind long after you've read the last page. I loved it, and I've just bought my own copy so I will be able to read it over and over after I've returned the library's copy that I just read. It's a keeper. And if Emma Forrest is reading this--please give us another Sadie Steinberg story!

What Brilliant writing style

I was pretty engossed in this novel from the Get-go! That doesn't happen that often for me. But I just love the author's style of writing & highly reccomend this brilliant & edgy book..

Love thsi book

I love this book, and this author. The narration is so insightful, clever, and funny. Buy this book. It won't disappoint you.

Could not put it down!

I absolutely loved this book. The unusual main character, Sadie was oddly very easy to connect with. I love how she expressed herself through her lipstick. It is a book about finding yourself, finding yourself through love, and finding yourself in some pretty akward, yet hillarious situations. It's creative, poetic, and funny. It made me laugh out loud but also really feel for the main characters. It also made me want to go buy lots of lipstick!

Red and white

Journalist/author/screenwriter Emma Forrest writes like the girl next door... if the girl next door is a savvy, sharp gal with encyclopedic pop culture knowledge. Her third novel continues the offbeat characters and dark, quirky writing. "Cherries in the Snow" is a bit like its namesake -- bright and engaging. Sadie Steinberg is a British twentysomething living in New York, and employed at chic Grrl Cosmetics. Her job? She comes up with the kicky nicknames for makeup, like "Ass-Slapping Pink" and "Born To Run," (yes, I'd love that job too) and aspires to create a name as memorable as "Cherries in the Snow." Lipstick is also a barometer for her moods. Some people wear their hearts on their sleeves, but Sadie wears hers on her mouth. Then her love life takes a radical shift, after way too many "father figure" men (Dr. Freud, you may now leave the stage) who are twice her age. One day Sadie encounters hippie-esque graffiti artist Marley, and they fall in love. But Sadie has a rival for his affections: his young daughter Montana, who eerily reminds Sadie of herself. Sounds like your typical chick-lit? Trust me, it's not -- at least, it's not the fluffy twenty-something-woman-in-love stuff that is churned out on a monthly basis. Emma Forrest is far wittier and more flippant, sort of like if Nick Hornby had been born a girl. To dismiss "Cherries in the Snow" as "chick-lit" is a disservice of the worst kind. Forrest's writing has grown up a bit since her debut novel, "Namedropper." There are echoes of her earlier work -- Holly in particular reminds one of sexy, free-spirited Treena -- but Forrest's writing has become a bit deeper over time. Here, she's taking a harder look at friendships, love affairs, and dating men with children. But if her themes have gotten deeper, Forrest hasn't lost her knack for acidic observation. Or, for that matter, her ability to steep her books in pop culture without making them seem trendy or gimmicky. On the subject of Holly, Sadie muses that "you have that intense, romantic love for your best friend and if it ends, the breakup is absolutely traumatizing." Insights like those can cut like a knife. The cover of "Cherries in the Snow" sums up the book pretty well. Reminiscent of a minimalist makeup ad, feminine, colorful yet a bit wink-nudge. Much like the book itself.