TY - BOOK AU - Hilderbrand,Elin TI - The matchmaker: a novel SN - 9780316404679 PY - 2014/// CY - New York PB - Little Brown & Co. KW - Mate selection KW - Fiction KW - Cancer KW - Patients KW - Family relationships KW - Married women KW - Middle-aged women KW - First loves KW - Mothers and daughters KW - Adultery KW - Homecoming KW - Man-woman relationships KW - Family secrets KW - Nantucket Island (Mass.) KW - Large type books KW - Domestic fiction KW - lcgft KW - Romance fiction N2 - Dabney Kimball Beech, the 48-year-old fifth generation Nantucketer, has had a lifelong gift of matchmaking (52 couples still together to her credit). But when Dabney discovers she is dying of pancreatic cancer, she sets out to find matches for a few people very close to home: her husband, celebrated economist John Boxmiller Beech; her lover, journalist Clendenin Hughes; and her daughter, Agnes, who is engaged to be married to the wrong man. As time slips away from Dabney, she is determined to find matches for those she loves most -- but at what cost to her own relationships? ER -