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Eddie Winston Is Looking for Love
By (Author) Marianne Cronin
Transworld Publishers Ltd
Doubleday
13th August 2024
United Kingdom
General
Fiction
Contemporary lifestyle fiction
Narrative theme: Love and relationships
Humorous fiction
Narrative theme: Death, grief, loss
823.92
Paperback
352
Width 153mm, Height 235mm, Spine 25mm
427g
From the Goodreads Best Fiction Choice shortlisted author, a soul-stirring new novel of inter-generational friendship, helping others and finding yourself. 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 Eddie Winston waited all his life for the love of his life to leave her unhappy marriage. She never did. Now in old age as a volunteer in a charity shop sorting out donations from the living and the dead, Eddie discovers a stash of unsent love letters. He resolves to track down and hand them to the person for whom they were intended. Meanwhile, Bella, a spiky young woman overcoming her own private tragedy, decides it is Eddie Winston himself who deserves to finally find love. As Bella helps Eddie and Eddie helps, well, everyone, an astonishing, soul-stirring story unfolds, of how opening your heart can lead to unexpected friendship, fulfilment and finding yourself.
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.