THE SUMMER OF LIVING DANGEROUSLY
Book ID/图书代码: 12691011B49483
English Summary/英文概要: THE SUMMER OF LIVING DANGEROUSLY is a heart-warming, emotional book about facing up to the past. Alice Woodstock has her life under control. She’s successful and she’s happy, as long as she continues to ignore her own painful history. When her reckless, unpredictable ex-husband walks back into her life, Alice is desperate for an escape route. She finds the perfect thing: a job as a tour guide in a Regency stately home. But as she immerses herself in acting out the stories of the house, wearing the costumes and searching for her own Mr Darcy, Alice begins to see parallels with her own life, forcing her to confront her feelings about what she wants..and maybe even gaining the courage to live dangerously again.A touching, intelligent and funny novel of contemporary women’s fiction.
Chinese Summary/中文概要: 一部讲述了你如何面对自己过去,去寻找自己真正想要的…
Alice Woodstock一直过着有条不紊的生活。沉浸在成功幸福感觉的她,只要她继续忘却曾经的伤痛。但当她的伤痛往事,以Leo的形态走进她的生活时,Alice拼命地寻找了一条出路。她为自己寻得了一份在摄政时期豪华古宅庄园作导游的美差。但随着她沉浸在这所房子的故事中时,Alice仿佛也开始看见了与自己生活轨迹相似的一幕,她最终不得不回到自己在现实世界中真正所要面对的情感,以及她最终想要的生活。(Sandy)
Awards/获奖情况:’Reader, prepared to be charmed ... to cry a little ... and laugh a lot. Julie Cohen’s pen dances gracefully over the page in what is on the surface a delightful romp, but which packs an emotional punch that most romantic comedies fail to deliver. It takes great skill to marry both light and dark, but Julie manages this seamlessly and with a deftness of touch that will keep you reading till the very last page. Enchanting.’ —Bestselling women’s fiction author Veronica Henry ’I enjoyed The Summer of Living Dangerously tremendously. The flirtation with the Regency world is delightful fun, but that’s also the frame for a moving and deeply satisfying love story. A rich feast.’—New York Times bestselling novelist Jo Beverley
’Loved it! …Made me laugh out loud - a feat usually reserved for Georgette [Heyer]’—Georgette Heyer biographer Jennifer Kloester
’Wonderful…moving and heartbreaking and funny and real.’—International award-winning author L. A. Weatherly
‘The Summer of Living Dangerously captures all of the witty, elegant and dashing style of the Regency era and wraps it in a delicious contemporary novel.’—USA Today bestselling Regency author Nicola Cornick
’I love her books like I love Armistead Maupin’s’—Dr Who author Paul Magrs
About the Author/作者介绍: 朱莉•科恩在美國緬因州西部的山裡長大,從很早的時候就開始寫故事小說了,其中大部分內容涉及搖滾明星或魔法。自布朗大學獲得英語系榮譽學士學位後,她搬到英國,她在那裡花了三年時間研究維多利亞時代兒童文學中所述的小精靈。因為在現實生活中很少能得到實際應用,她轉而成為中學的英語老師,利用晚間休息和學校假期寫小說。她目前是一位全職作家,和的丈夫,兒子和大約價值100萬吉他住在(英國南部)的伯克郡。JULIE COHEN grew up in the mountains of western Maine, USA, and came to England to study fairies in Victorian literature. A former teacher, she lives in Berkshire with her husband, son, and about a million guitars. Julie wrote for Little Black Dress – this is her first big novel for Headline which they plan to make a lead title.
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