Book : Little French Bridal Shop - Dupee, Jennifer

-Titulo Original : Little French Bridal Shop

-Fabricante :

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Review Inthis tender and emotional debut, Dupee beautifully captures the highsand lows of midlife and the importance of family and community and delivers a thoroughly satisfying,hopeful conclusion. - Washington Independent Review o fBooks ...a soul-felt, believable, and insightful story that alsomanages to be charming, playful, and entertaining. What a coup by this debut author we should all keep on ourradar hereinafter.-Book Club Babble The Little French Bridal Shop is a compelling debut that explores grief, love, and findingyourself. -BooklistDupees debut novel doesnt have ahappy-ever-after ending. Its crisply written....the book is strung though with the hopethat lifes hard times dont last forever. Readers will enjoy seeingLarisa and Jack find that hope. - Library Journal Thisis Jennifer Dupees debut, and a solid one at that. The Little FrenchBridal Shop is full of heart and filled with messy, intriguing characters.It wasnt the light read I expected ... it was so much better than that. - Better Reading JenniferDupees debut novel is a delight...a story about discovering your authentic self when things get hard, and the joys you can find when you live from your heart. Louise MillerIs a lie of omission still a lie? Larisa Pearl didnt think so and it got her into a heap of trouble.When Larisa Pearl returns to her small seaside hometown in Massachusetts to manage her beloved great aunts estate, shes a bit of an emotional mess. Shes just lost her job and her boyfriend and shes struggling to cope with her mothers failing health. When she passes by the window of The Little French Bridal Shop, a beautiful ivory satin wedding gown catches her eye...Now, to the delight of everyone in town, Larisa is planning her wedding. She has her dress, made floral arrangements, and set the date. The only thing missing is the groom. How did this happen? All she did was try on a dress and let her fantasy take flight. But word about her upcoming nuptials has reached the ears of Jack Merrill. As teenagers, they spent time together on her great aunts estate, building a friendship that could have become something more had they chosen different paths.Lost in a web of her own lies, Larisa must first face some difficult truths, including her mothers fragile future, before she can embrace her family, straighten out her life, and open her heart to finding love. About the Author Jennifer Dupee grew up on the North Shore of Boston near the seaside communities of Manchester-by-the-Sea and Beverly Farms. She is a graduate of Brown University, where she studied under published authors Meredith Steinbach and Carole Maso, and received her honors in Creative Writing. She is an active member of the Grub Street writing community in Boston and has published by The Feminist Press. She was a semi-finalist for the 2016 James Jones First Novel Competition and a semi-finalist for the 2016 Faulkner-Wisdom competition. Jennifer lives just outside of Boston with her family. Her first published novel is The Little French Bridal Shop, and she is currently at work on her next novel.