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Love
Walked in
Why
we chose this book
First, this is definitely a love story, not a
romance novel. I loved
the movie The Philadelphia Story, but not as much as our heroine Cornelia
Brown does. This story is as witty, clever and surprising poignant as the movie
classic. And while Prince Charming isn't always a prince, happily ever
after is always a possibility if we look within ourselves. ~Beth Publishers
Weekely
Philadelphia
cafe manager Cornelia Brown drifts effortlessly through her unattached
life, unapologetic for idealizing romance and breathlessly recommending
The Philadelphia Story—to the reader and everyone else. Eleven-year-old
Clare is a child of divorce whose mother, a successful party planner, is
quickly going to pieces. In alternating chapters of Cornelia's first
person and Clare's free and direct third, poet de los Santos, making her
novel debut, tells the story of their finding each other. That Cornelia,
early on, immediately falls for Cary Grant doppelgänger Martin Grace is
no surprise; his relation to Clare, revealed a third of the way in, isn't
really either. As she discovers maternal instincts she wasn't sure she
had, Cornelia works up the courage to face her own feelings for Clare with
honesty. As Martin exits, Cornelia's childhood friend Teo enters, but
neither makes much impact, and Clare's rather serious issues get reduced
to Clare-did-this, Clare-thought-that episodes. The two main characters
exist for one purpose: to enact a cross-generational,
strong-but-vulnerable-and-loving, screenplay-ready femininity. Chick lit?
You bet: with rights sold in at least eight countries, and, indeed, to
Paramount—Sarah Jessica Parker will star and coproduce with Sideways's
Michael London. The book is fine, but for this property, it's a case of
waiting for Carrie to walk in. (Jan.)
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Book
Description
A
tribute to classic film and true romance, LOVE WALKED IN tells the story
of two women – one older, one younger – and the unexpected ways in
which their lives are forever changed by chance.
For
thirty-one-year old Cornelia Brown, life is a series of movie moments, and
“Jimmy Stewart is always and indisputably the best man in the world,
unless Cary Grant should happen to show up.” So imagine Cornelia’s
delight when her very own Cary Grant walks through the door of the hip
Philadelphia café she manages. Handsome and debonair, Martin Grace sweeps
Cornelia off her feet, becoming Cary Grant to Cornelia’s Katharine
Hepburn, Clark Gable to her Joan Crawford. Meanwhile, on the other side of
town, eleven-year-old Clare Hobbes must learn to fend for herself after
her increasingly unstable mother has a breakdown and disappears. With no
one to turn to, Clare seeks out her estranged father, and when the two of
them show up at Cornelia’s café, the lives of Cornelia and Clare are
changed in drastic and unexpected ways. A cinematic and heartfelt debut
that pays homage to the classic Cary Grant/Katharine Hepburn romantic
comedy The Philadelphia Story, Love Walked In is sure to win over critics
and readers of contemporary fiction.
Richmond
Times Dispatch
This
is a book that will be passed from friend to friend with the words, ‘You
have to read this.’
The
Washington Post Book World
Love
Walked In, by Marisa de los Santos, is the kind of book that makes you
want to hunker down on a chilly day in a comfy chair and read straight
through ’til dark. . . .This [is a] poignant, heart-tugging story about
a single woman and a little girl who develop an unlikely bond.
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