Her mother is an annoying shop-aholic with a penchant for seeing all five of her girls married well Mr. This Liz lives in New York and writes for “Mascara” magazine but hails from an upper middle-class family living in a deteriorating Tudor in Cincinnati’s tony Hyde Park neighborhood.
In Eligible, Curtis Sittenfeld has written a Lizzie Bennet for the modern American woman.
If only I could have stopped the narrative, run from the car, and found female readers’ own favorite protagonist - Lizzie Bennet - having lunch as described! The questions I would ask her! The advice I would offer! The friendship we would develop!Īlas, as all in carnations of Elizabeth Bennet inevitably are, this one too was fictional. A place of business less than a stone’s throw from my own back door. I was driving along, returning to my home from an out of town visit and listening to a book on tape, ( Eligible, Curtis Sittenfeld) when the narrator mentioned Doodles restaurant in Lexington, Kentucky. Then, finally, she returned to Los Angeles, hoping to act again and get past the trauma that had derailed her life.Gentle reader, imagine my delighted surprise. Then there were years away in Ireland, sheltered and protected but with restlessness growing in her soul. First came the discovery of a betrayal that would send someone she’d trusted to prison. Dillon Cooper was shocked to find the bruised and terrified girl huddled in his ranch house kitchen-but when the teenager and his family heard her story they provided refuge and comfort, reuniting her with her loved ones.Cate’s ordeal, though, was far from over. It was during one of those games that she disappeared.Despite her glamorous background, Cate was a shrewd, scrappy survivor, and she managed to escape her abductors. “A family ranch in Big Sur country and a legacy of Hollywood royalty set the stage for Nora Roberts’ emotional new suspense novel.Caitlyn Sullivan, a daughter of Hollywood royalty, was already a star at ten, but still loved to play hide-and-seek with her cousins at the family home in Big Sur.
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