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Flirting with Pete
Flirting with Pete
Author: Barbara Delinsky
Psychologist Casey Ellis never met her father -- but that didn't stop her from following in his professional footsteps. Now he has died, and Casey is shocked to have inherited his elegant Boston town house, complete with a maid and a handsome, enigmatic gardener. When she finds a manuscript that could be a novel, a journal, or a case study of on...  more »
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PBS Market Price: $8.09 or $4.19+1 credit
ISBN-13: 9780743469845
ISBN-10: 0743469844
Publication Date: 4/2004
Pages: 560
Rating:
  • Currently 3.8/5 Stars.
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3.8 stars, based on 215 ratings
Publisher: Pocket
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover, Audio Cassette, Audio CD
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Helpful Score: 7
Very disturbing plotline. If you are a survivor of molestation by a family memberor are close to someone who is, do not read this book. It's considerably different from Delinsky's other books. Very dark. compelling storyline. I couldn't put it down.
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Helpful Score: 2
I loved this book. It grabs you from the first page and you don't want to put it down. The plot has a few twists and turns to keep you guessing. Overall, a very enjoyable read.
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Helpful Score: 2
This is one of my favorite Delinsky books. A young woman inherits a townhouse from a father who never acknowledged her. As she decides what to do with this unexpected gift, she discovers more about herself in his home than she could have ever imagined.
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Helpful Score: 2
This was only my second Barbara Delinsky book. I was so impressed with the first one that I had to get 2 more off of paperback swap. Flirting with Pete was great. I just loved it. It was almost like 2 stories in one book. It kept me very interested.
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Helpful Score: 1
I loved this book!
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reviewed Flirting with Pete on + 6 more book reviews
Heartbreaking in a most fullfilling way. Great writing and storytelling
veronicavangoat avatar reviewed Flirting with Pete on
This book shifts back and forth between past and present - something that can often be annoying if the author doesn't do well with that kind of writing. Barbara Delinsky apparently can handle it because, if not exactly an on-the-edge-of-your-seat page turner, I was anxious to get back to this book when I had to put it down. I got a little burned out on her books a few years ago, but this made a for a very nice reunion with her style of writing. Interesting characters - it was kind of cool the way she just gave you bits and pieces of each character - it certainly kept me interested. Good read.
Carly avatar reviewed Flirting with Pete on + 6 more book reviews
This book is great! It is a twisted tale ending in a great way. I couldn't put the book down.
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Surprisingly a pretty good story with a small mystery, although the ending was a bit too trite...a "let's wrap this up with a good Hollywood ending". The romance stories were good, believable. A nice comfort book.
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I really liked this book even though it is not of Delinsky's most recent books. The characters were intriguing with a bit of mystery and romance thrown in.
This is a quick read which you will not want to put down.
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This book was hard to get into at first, but once I was into it, I was hooked. I couldn't put it down. The suspense was good, but I had it figured out before the "secrets" were revealed. A good read.
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Casey Ellis has arrived at a lonely place in her life. Her mother remains in a comatose state several years after a terrible accident -- and now her father has died.
Although Casey didn't really know him -- never met him, in fact -- she had held out an oblique hope that someday this man, Dr. Cornelius Unger, a celebrated psychologist, might acknowledge her. In an attempt to please him, she even went into his field and became a counselor, to no avail.
It comes as a shock, therefore, when she learns that he has left her his beautiful townhouse in Boston's exclusive Beacon Hill section. She is of half a mind to sell it and use the money to care for her mother, but then she visits the townhouse and finds it enchanting. In fact, any chance she might have had of resisting the house is lost when she falls in love with the hidden garden out back. Sweetening the deal is the maid, a woman close to her age, who cooks and cleans and wants only to please her; and the gardener, a man who is as enigmatic as he is handsome.
Yet always in Casey's mind is the question of why Cornelius Unger chose to acknowledge her in this way. Sensing that he had an ulterior motive, she searches the house and finds the first part of a manuscript that could be a novel, a journal, or a case study of one of her father's clients. The manuscript tells the harrowing story of a young woman named Jenny who was sexually abused by her father and emotionally abused by her mother. When her mother was murdered, her father was sent to prison. Now, after only six years in jail, he is about to be released, and Jenny knows she has to escape. Her way out appears in the form of a mysterious stranger, a dream of a man named Pete, who shows up on his motorcycle and offers to whisk her away.
Convinced the story is true -- even more, that her father has left this manuscript as a message for her -- Casey sets out to find the rest of the pages. With the discovery of each additional segment, she learns more about Jenny, about herself, and about Cornelius Unger, who she realizes has planned this journey for her, actually begun the first day she set foot in his house. The manuscript proves to be the key to understanding not only her father's past but also that of the man she has come to love.
Flirting with Pete reaches its climax with a startling twist, one that explores the role of imagination in our everyday lives. Through Jenny's story, Casey gains insight into her own life as she vacillates between what she wants to be true and what actually is. With unflinching grace, Barbara Delinsky delves into the human psyche as it colors contemporary family life. Flirting with Pete is sure to touch a personal chord with readers and win her even more dedicated fans


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