Norma Ever After
By (Author) Nancy Baxter
Random House USA Inc
Random House Australia
30th August 2005
United States
General
Fiction
FIC
Paperback
304
Width 135mm, Height 203mm, Spine 17mm
224g
Once upon a time, specifically our time, there lived an ordinary commoner named Norma Dale. Hovering near thirty, Norma no longer expected passion, or even romance. Not since puberty and the retirement of her single Ken doll and his harem of Barbies. . . .
When Norma's father leaves her a sea chest brimming with cash, and her beloved plush puffin from childhood, she takes the old stuffed bird as a sign- and decides that it's high time she started believing in fairy tales. Particularly, the ones her father used to tell her about the mystical Orkney Islands.
So Norma travels to the far north of Scotland, where she discovers that nesting puffins are indeed real. And, unbelievably, so are the handsome men of the heather she's always dreamed of . . . and they're looking in her direction.
Suddenly, Norma feels sexy. Not go-go boots and hot pants sexy; more mysterious, like a lithe and lovely young Catherine from Wuthering Heights sexy (minus the dead part). But there's more than one Heathcliff on these moors. Will she choose the brooding artist, the brash Texan, or the sensitive professor If those Barbies could see her now. . . .
"Completely engaging! Nancy Baxter is a unique and delightful new voice in women's fiction."
-Robyn Harding, author of The Journal of Mortifying Moments
"A fascinating journey of self-discovery that's as magical as any fairy tale."
-Shanna Swendson, author of Enchanted, Inc.
"Witty, moving, and bawdy."
-Rebecca Campbell, author of Slave to Fashion
Nancy Baxter lives in Austin, Texas. She is the author of Norma Ever After and Made in Trinidad.