Ready or Not? by Grace Wynne-Jones

Ready or Not? by Grace Wynne-Jones

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'If you try one new author, try Grace Wynne-Jones... that rare combination of depth, honesty and wit... a deliciously soft, gentle, loving humour.' * OK Magazine *

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Ready or Not? by Grace Wynne-Jones

Sometimes you've got to forgive the person you were to be the person you can be.... How do you find the faith to love again? Take Caddy. She's blonde and beautiful, and has a wonderful man who loves her....what could be more perfect? And yet she's running away from him, and from a secret and painful past. Then there's feisty, tender Roz who has to make corn cream commercials sound romantic and who yearns to be a writer. That's after she finds a man and has a baby, of course... She can't help feeling it was all meant to be easier. And Tom who dreams of being a famous photographer but who ends up selling mobile phones and thinking about the son he never sees. Not to mention gorgeous Dan, a famous actor...He only wants Caddy.... Why doesn't she want him? Four star-crossed people in a Dublin summer, with a match-making mother to spice up the sometimes poignant and sometimes hilarious tale even further. Should they all settle for less, taking life's little disappointments on the chin, or chase their dreams of love and happiness? The question is, are they ready for it, or not?
Grace Wynne-Jones is the author of four highly intimate, soulful novels that have received critical acclaim and an enthusiastic response from many readers. She was born and brought up in Ireland, and her early years were spent in a big rambling rectory in the Irish countryside where her father was a Church of Ireland clergyman. Two of Grace's novels got into the Irish bestsellers charts and two of them have been translated, 'Ordinary Miracles' into German and 'Ready Or Not?' into Russian and Indonesian. She has been described as a novelist who tells the truth about the human heart, and she has often been praised for the warm humour and tender observations in her writing. I value intimacy in ordinary life, people who seem to understand and people I don't have to pretend with, she admits. That is what the characters in my novels want too, they want to take off their masks and tell it how it truly is. One of my biggest pleasures is when a reader says that they have felt understood by one of my books. Grace has also lived in Africa, the USA and England, and her feature articles have appeared in many magazines and national newspapers. Her short stories have been published in magazines in Ireland, England and Australia, and have been broadcast on RTE and BBC Radio 4. 'Ebb Tide', her radio play, was broadcast on RTE One, and she has also produced and presented two radio documentaries. She currently lives in Ireland and has a deep interest in psychology, spirituality and healing, and she also loves to celebrate the strangeness and wonders of ordinary life and love.
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ISBN 13 9781909624849
ISBN 10 1909624845
Title Ready or Not?
Author Grace Wynne-Jones
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Paperback
Publisher Headline Publishing Group
Year published 2013-05-23
Number of pages 330
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