WHAT MATTERS MOST

Book ID/图书代码： 06830007B18657

English Summary/英文概要： In What Matters Most, Luanne Rice brings back two of her most beloved characters to tell of their journey across the sea to unravel the mysteries of a shared past—and two undying love affairs...

Chinese Summary/中文概要： 她帶來她最喜愛的兩個角色向我們講述他們的海上海上征程，帶我們進入他們的過去，揭開各種迷團，讓讀者感受不朽真愛的力量…(Vicky)

Awards/获奖情况：Rice returns to familiar haunts in her latest romantic family saga. She also reprises two characters from last year’s Sandcastles (2006): Sister Bernadette, the superior at a girls’ school in Connecticut, and Tom Kelly, the groundskeeper who has always loved her. They are on a mission, traveling to Dublin to locate the son they left with the sisters at a convent 23 years earlier, just before Bernie became a nun. Unbeknownst to Bernie and Tom, their son, James, was never placed with a loving family but instead lived a lonely life at the children’s home, his only friend a girl his age, Kathleen, from whom he was separated when they were 13. Rice skillfully weaves together the stories of these two apparently doomed romances, shifting across time and continents, as Bernie and Tom try to reconnect with James, and as Kathleen, now working in America, waits for her first love to find her there. While a few hurdles are removed too conveniently, Rice’s characters are engaging, compelling the reader to keep those pages turning until all loose threads are tied. Donovan, Deborah---Booklist

True love never dies—but it may need the helping hand of the Virgin Mary and the luck o’ the Irish to survive in Rice’s latest, effectively a sequel to last year’s Sandcastles. Sister Bernadette Ignatius (the former Bernie Sullivan), Mother Superior at the coastal Connecticut Star of the Sea Academy, travels to Dublin with Tom Kelly, the academy’s ombudsman, seeking James, the son they gave up over 20 years ago. In a parallel narrative set up in a prologue, young James and Kathleen, raised together as orphans, are devastated when they are forced to separate when Kathleen is 13. While Bernie and Tom look for James (now calling himself Seamus), James searches for Kathleen, who pines for him in a Newport, R.I., mansion, where she is a cook and maid for an atrocious, wealthy family. Rice juices up the predictable plot line with miraculous visions, ghosts, convenient encounters and melodramatic twists of fate—yet the effects are still lukewarm, though there’s guilt, redemption and three-hankie moments aplenty for those who stick it out to the end. (July) ---Publishers Weekly

About the Author/作者介绍： Luanne Rice is the author, most recently, of Last Kiss and Light of the Moon, among many other New York Times bestsellers. She lives in New York City and on the Connecticut shore.
盧安·萊斯(Luanne Rice)出版過２３本暢銷書，如《最重要的事》、《冬日之際》、《沙堡》、《玫瑰之夏》、《夏日之子》和《沙灘女生》。她居住在紐約以及康涅迪格州。盧安·萊斯的作品數度被改編電影與電視影集，，如《真愛無價》(Follow the Stars Home)(2001)、Silver Bells等…
盧安·萊斯雖然是羅曼史暢銷作者，但其作品不僅只描寫男女之情，作品中常見對於家人間的親情與友誼的深刻描述。她的小說《冬日之際》、《沙堡》和《玫瑰之夏》讓人難以忘懷她對家庭、友誼和愛情悲歡離合的呼喚，釋放了人們最強烈的內心情感。盧安·萊斯的多本作品繁體版權皆開放。
盧安·萊斯網站：http://www.randomhouse.com/features/luannerice/about.html

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