Eddie: "Suddenly, it seems so huge. ... Looking for love. What am I doing?"
Bella: "It's not as big as it seems.... Love is really just two people who can't keep away from each other."
Happy Pub Day to Marianne Cronin and her new novel Eddie Winston is Looking for Love! I adored this bittersweet story and hope it's adapted for the screen - I'd love to see Eddie's wardrobe brought to life.
Told in two timelines, the plot features the eponymous Eddie Winston when he's 90 as well as when he's a much younger man. In current time, he works at a British charity shop and becomes the unofficial archivist of other people's memories - donated items that have no monetary value but immense sentimental value.
In this way, he meets Bella, a young woman with pink hair, and the two form a sweet intergenerational friendship. Bella learns that Eddie hasn't had his first kiss and makes it her mission to help him find love.
The story includes heartbreaking loss and moments of pure joy, and it gave me a big goofy smile on several occasions. The cast of characters is small so I got to know them well and felt their range of emotions. My only criticism is that I'm skeptical of Eddie's ability to engage in his activities so well at age 90; I just reframed his age to 80 in my mind.
I definitely plan to read The One Hundred Years of Lenni and Margot, Ms. Cronin's debut, as I've seen glowing reviews for it.
Many thanks to Harper Perennial for the review copy of this wonderful novel.
Bella: "It's not as big as it seems.... Love is really just two people who can't keep away from each other."
Happy Pub Day to Marianne Cronin and her new novel Eddie Winston is Looking for Love! I adored this bittersweet story and hope it's adapted for the screen - I'd love to see Eddie's wardrobe brought to life.
Told in two timelines, the plot features the eponymous Eddie Winston when he's 90 as well as when he's a much younger man. In current time, he works at a British charity shop and becomes the unofficial archivist of other people's memories - donated items that have no monetary value but immense sentimental value.
In this way, he meets Bella, a young woman with pink hair, and the two form a sweet intergenerational friendship. Bella learns that Eddie hasn't had his first kiss and makes it her mission to help him find love.
The story includes heartbreaking loss and moments of pure joy, and it gave me a big goofy smile on several occasions. The cast of characters is small so I got to know them well and felt their range of emotions. My only criticism is that I'm skeptical of Eddie's ability to engage in his activities so well at age 90; I just reframed his age to 80 in my mind.
I definitely plan to read The One Hundred Years of Lenni and Margot, Ms. Cronin's debut, as I've seen glowing reviews for it.
Many thanks to Harper Perennial for the review copy of this wonderful novel.
