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The Cabernet Club

By Margie Zable Fisher

The Cabernet Club

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The second book in the beloved series! A warm, brave, and big-hearted novel about reinvention, forgiveness, and the fierce friendships that save us.

At sixty-five, Sophie Bernstein feels herself disappearing—into retirement, into loneliness, into a house full of memories she can’t face. On a whim, she leaves everything behind for Palmetto Point, a Florida condo community where the sunshine is bright, the neighbors are nosy, and nothing stays hidden for long.


Instead of the quiet reset she imagined, Sophie is pulled into the orbit of a charming maintenance man, a group of fearless women who gather nightly over wine, and a condo scandal that exposes more than community secrets—it exposes her own.


As Sophie becomes entangled in new friendships and old grief, she begins to want more from her life than safety. But wanting more means risking everything she came to Palmetto Point to escape.


Perfect for fans of The Thursday Murder Club and Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine—a warm, funny, and deeply human story of reinvention and the courage to be seen.

Margie Zable Fisher

Margie Zable Fisher believes life after fifty is when things start getting interesting.After turning fifty, she began running and competing in triathlons, traded her longtime career in public relations for full-time writing, and set out to make her second act her best act.Her debut novel, The Cabernet Club, was co-written with her mother, Rona S. Zable. When her mother was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer in 2023, Margie made a promise that she would see their novel published. Two years after her mother’s passing, that promise was fulfilled when the book was released by Sibylline Press on January 31, 2025.Margie now speaks to audiences about reinvention, resilience, and the joyful truth that it’s never too late to begin again.A longtime freelance journalist, she writes about retirement, Medicare, aging, health, and personal finance for publications including AARP, Fortune, and Next Avenue.Margie lives in Florida with her family, where she runs, cycles, plays pickleball, watches British crime dramas, and considers it a very good day if she reaches “Genius” in the New York Times Spelling Bee.

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