The matchmaker : a novel / Elin Hilderbrand.
Material type:
TextPublication details: New York : Little Brown & Co., 2014.Edition: 1st ed. ; Large print edDescription: 536 pages (large print) ; 24 cmContent type: - text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9780316404679
- 0316404675
- Mate selection -- Fiction
- Cancer -- Patients -- Family relationships -- Fiction
- Married women -- Fiction
- Middle-aged women -- Fiction
- First loves -- Fiction
- Mothers and daughters -- Fiction
- Adultery -- Fiction
- Homecoming -- Fiction
- Man-woman relationships -- Fiction
- Family secrets -- Fiction
- Nantucket Island (Mass.) -- Fiction
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Dr. James Carlson Library | Large Print Fiction | Hilderbr Elin | Available | 33111008905461 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
In this moving story about losing and finding love again, a woman sets out to find the perfect matches for those closest to her.
Forty-eight-year-old Nantucketer Dabney Kimball Beech has always had a gift for matchmaking. Some call her ability mystical, while others, her husband, celebrated economist John Boxmiller Beech, and her daughter, Agnes, who is clearly engaged to the wrong man, call it meddlesome. But there's no arguing with her results: With 42 happy couples to her credit and all of them still together, Dabney has never been wrong about romance.
Never, that is, except in the case of herself and Clendenin Hughes, the green-eyed boy who took her heart with him long ago when he left the island to pursue his dream of becoming a journalist. Now, after spending twenty-seven years on the other side of the world, Clen is back on Nantucket, and Dabney has never felt so confused, or so alive.
But when tragedy threatens her own second chance, Dabney must face the choices she's made and share painful secrets with her family. Determined to make use of her gift before it's too late, she sets out to find perfect matches for those she loves most.
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?