Eddie Winston Is Looking for Love from Marianne Cronin

Category: Bücher
Pages / Format: 352 S
Edit year: 2024
Publishing House: Random House UKDoubleday
Language: Englisch
ISBN: 9780857527226

An incredibly gorgeous story about an unconventional friendship and a late-life but enduring love. Marianne Cronin creates such complete and lovable characters, and these pages are brimming over with kindness and hope. We all need Eddie Winston in our lives! Sublimely enjoyable.HAZEL PRIOR, author of AWAY WITH THE PENGUINS

Those we love are never forgotten and it is never too late to try again<br><br>FUNNY, UPLIFTING STORY ABOUT THE POWER OF FRIENDSHIP AND FINDING LOVE IN UNEXPECTED PLACES, FROM THE AUTHOR OFTHE ONE HUNDRED YEARS OF LENNI AND MARGOT<br><br>'Heart-tuggingly lovely'*****<br>'Can't wait to recommend'*****<br>'Poignant, funny, emotional'*****<br>'Read it. You'll be glad you did'*****<br>'This book is pure joy'Prima<br>______________<br><br>Eddie Winston is ninety years old. He has lived and he has loved, but he has never been kissed.<br><br>A true gentleman and incurable romantic, Eddie spends his days volunteering at a charity shop, where he sorts through the donations of the living and the dead, preserving letters and tokens of love along the way. It is here that he meets Bella, a troubled young woman who, aged twenty-four, has just lost the love of her life.<br><br>When Bella learns that Eddie is yet to have his first kiss, she resolves to help him finally find love, sparking an adventure that will take them to unexpected places and, they hope, bring Eddie to the moment he has waited for all his life.<br><br>As Bella helps Eddie and Eddie helps, well, everyone, a soul-stirring story of friendship and kindness unfolds as we see how those we love are never forgotten and it is never too late to try again.<br>________<br><br>'Brimming over with kindness and hope'Hazel Prior, author ofAway with the Penguins<br><br>'Lives up to the brilliance ofThe One Hundred Years of Lenni&Margotand, dare I say it... surpasses it'Julietta Henderson<br><br>Readers adore EDDIE WINSTON:<br>'Overflows with joy. You willlaughandcry, mostly happy tears, but not all. Read it - you'll be glad you did'*****<br>'Absolutely heart-tugginglylovely'*****<br>'4.24 am, and I've just finished this. Beautifully writtenpoignant, funny, emotionaland lovely. A huge 5 stars'*****<br>'I couldn't wait to finish it fast enoughto recommend to my book-reading bestie'*****

2GBMarianne Croninwas born in 1990 and grew up in Warwickshire. After gaining her PhD in applied linguistics, she worked in academia until becoming a writer. Her first novel,The One Hundred Years of Lenni and Margot,published by Doubleday in 2021, was voted'most uplifting book of 2021'byThe Independentand shortlisted for a Goodreads Choice Award for Fiction. She lives in the Midlands with her family and her cat.

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