The Cabernet Club: A Novel

The Golden Girls reboot we all deserve―hilarious, heartfelt, and exactly what women want to read right now, The Cabernet Club is a joyful ode to reinvention at any age!

"A charming and empowering tale of seniors living life to the fullest."―Publishers Weekly

Pour a glass, pull up a chair, and meet your new favorite friends.

Debbie Gordon has six months to get a life. Long-divorced and restless, she moves into a quirky Florida condo community expecting nothing more than poolside small talk and early-bird specials. Instead, she stumbles into The Cabernet Club―a circle of sharp, funny, fiercely loyal women who believe midlife isn’t an ending, it’s a beginning.

Between nosy neighbors, unexpected romance, and the constant buzzing of her helicopter daughter checking in from afar, Debbie learns that reinvention can be messy, intoxicating, and absolutely worth it. With her new friends (and a few very good bottles of wine), she discovers that life after divorce isn’t about slowing down―it’s about finally turning up the volume.

Brimming with wit, warmth, and a perfectly poured cabernet, this debut novel is a joyful ode to second acts, friendship, and the surprising freedom of midlife.

For fans of The Golden Girls, Book Club, and Lessons in Chemistry, The Cabernet Club is a hilarious, heartfelt celebration of late-in-life friendship, female reinvention, and the courage to claim joy on your own terms.

Raise your glass. This is the book club you’ve been waiting for.

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.