LITTLE BLACK DRESS

Book ID/图书代码： 06830010B40433

English Summary/英文概要： Since leaving her hometown of Blue Hills, Antonia Ashton has worked hard for twenty-five years, building a thriving career and a solid relationship with a good guy. Then Greg-the-Accountant gives her the key to his apartment instead of a ring, and the forty-something Toni realizes her life has gone off-track. But she’s completely derailed when her mother, Evie, suffers a massive stroke. While their relationship has never been warm and fuzzy, Toni always thought she’d have time to make it right. Now she’s running back to Blue Hills to her mother and to the past she’d left behind.

Once home, Toni finds more than an ailing Evie to tend to. The old Victorian on the vineyard where she’d grown up isn’t only filled with clutter; it’s chockfull of secrets and lies. As Evie heals, Toni tries to put her mother’s house in order and, in the process, uncovers truths long-hidden involving Evie and her sister Anna, who’d vanished fifty years ago on the eve of her wedding. Unveiling the sisters’ tangled lives not only sheds light on the past, but on Toni’s own mistakes. And she learns the most unexpected things, about love and magic and a little black dress with the power to break hearts and mend them.

Chinese Summary/中文概要： 一件優雅的黑色小禮服，一對姐妹、一對母女，一段被刻意遺忘的過去。
Antonia努力工作，逐漸闖出一番事業。然而一連串的事情，使她感覺人生逐漸脫軌中。加上母親日益加重的病情，於是Antonia決定放下一切返家照顧中風的母親。
返家後，開始著手打掃凌亂的房子，才發現使房子雜亂的不是那些雜物，而是過去被深藏的秘密。
五十年前母親婚禮前夕到底發生什麼事？讓阿姨Anna突然消失，至今生死未卜。這也是母親常久已來不願提及的往事。Antonia明白若是再次選擇忽視，那麼整個家族不再會有未來可言。
過去，遺憾已造成，從現在開始挽回究竟算不算太晚？(Vincent)

Awards/获奖情况：Book trailer:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U-I6kRvY8Ic&feature=player_embedded#at=112

Reviews:
“I’ll read anything by Susan McBride.”---Charlaine Harris, New York Times bestselling author of the Sookie Stackhouse novels

“I’m madly in love with this full-of-surprises story about secrets, family ties—and one magical little black dress. One of my favorite novels of the year.”---Melissa Senate, author of The Secret of Joy

“An enchanting escape into a magical world.”---M.J. Rose, internationally bestselling author

About the Author/作者介绍： Susan McBride is the author of Little Black Dress (HarperCollins/William Morrow, August 23, 2011) and The Cougar Club, selected by Target Stores as a Bookmarked Breakout Title and named a Midwest Connections Pick by the Midwest Booksellers Association. Cougar also made MORE Magazine’s list of "February Books We’re Buzzing About." Foreign editions of The Cougar Club will be published in Croatia, France, and Turkey. The Cougar Club centers on three 45-year-old childhood pals from St. Louis who reconnect and discover that you’re never too old to follow your heart. After Little Black Dress, Susan will pen another women’s fiction novel for HarperCollins and a young adult thriller for Random House (details to come!).
On the personal front, Susan calls herself an "Accidental Cougar" after meeting a younger man in 2005 when she was a St. Louis Magazine Top Single. They were married in February 2008 and live happily ever after in a suburb of St. Louis. Susan is a breast cancer survivor and often speaks to women’s groups about her experience.
Additionally, Susan has written five award-winning Debutante Dropout Mysteries (HarperCollins/Avon), including Blue Blood, The Good Girl’s Guide To Murder, The Lone Star Lonely Hearts Club, Night Of The Living Deb, and Too Pretty To Die. She has authored several YA series books for Random House about debutantes in Houston, the debut in 2008 appropriately titled The Debs and followed by Love, Lies, and And Texas Dips in 2009. Gloves Off, the third book, is in pub date limbo.
Susan was the cover girl for the February 2009 issue of St. Louis Woman Magazine, where she was featured in the article, "Paperback Princess."For more scoops, visit http://SusanMcBride.com.
Susan McBride 多部暢銷小說作者，著名的Debutante Dropout系列等…其作品獲獎無數。與家人現居於密蘇里州的聖路易斯。http://SusanMcBride.com.

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