Eddie Winston Is Looking for Love by Marianne Cronin

Eddie Winston Is Looking for Love by Marianne Cronin

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Eddie Winston Is Looking for Love by Marianne Cronin

Funny, feelgood, heartlifting story about the power of intergenerational friendship and finding love in unexpected places - perfect for fans of The One Hundred Year-Old Man Who Climbed Through the Window and The Rosie Project 'Marianne Cronin creates such complete and lovable characters. Brimming over with kindness and hope. Sublimely enjoyable' Hazel Prior, author of Away with the Penguins 'Lives up to the brilliance of The One Hundred Years of Lenni & Margot and, dare I say it… surpasses it. Funny, captivating, faultless' Julietta Henderson ______________ Eddie Winston is ninety years old. He has lived and he has loved, but he has never been kissed. 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. 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. 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.
An incredibly gorgeous story about an unconventional friendship and a late-life but enduring loveMarianne 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 *
Marianne Cronin was 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' by The Independent and shortlisted for a Goodreads Choice Award for Fiction. She lives in the Midlands with her family and her cat.
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ISBN 13 9780857527219
Title Eddie Winston Is Looking for Love
Author Marianne Cronin
Condition Unavailable
Publisher Transworld Publishers Ltd
Year published 2024-08-15
Number of pages 352
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