Eddie Winston Is Looking for Love
A Novel
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4.3 • 49 Ratings
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- $6.99
Publisher Description
The author of the beloved international hit The One Hundred Years of Lenni and Margot returns with a funny, uplifting work of contemporary fiction about the power of friendship and finding love in unexpected places.
Eddie Winston is 90 years old. He has lived and he has loved, but he has never been kissed.
A true gentleman and incurable romantic, Eddie spends his days volunteering at a charity shop, where he sorts through the donations of the living and the dead, preserving letters and tokens of love along the way. And it is here that he meets Bella, a troubled young woman who, at 24 years old, has just lost the love of her life, sparking a life-changing intergenerational friendship.
When Bella learns that Eddie is yet to have his first kiss, she resolves to help Eddie Winston finally find love in a heartwarming quest for a later in life romance, sparking an adventure that will take them to unexpected places and, they hope, bring Eddie Winston to the moment he has waited for all his life.
This heartwarming tale of friendship and kindness reminds us that those we love are never forgotten and it is never too late to try again.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
British writer Cronin (The One Hundred Years of Lenni and Margot) serves up an enjoyable story of an unlikely friendship forged at a Birmingham thrift store. Eddie Winston, a 90-year-old store employee, meets Bella, 24, when she comes in with a donation of clothes left by her late boyfriend, Jake, whose death a year earlier she still hasn't recovered from. The pair hit it off and soon get together for lunch in a local park. When Bella learns Eddie has never been kissed, she makes it her mission to help him find love, and signs him up for dating apps. But Eddie still pines for Birdie, the wife of a philandering professor at the university where he taught in the 1960s. Despite their strong mutual attraction, both Eddie and Birdie respected her wedding vows. As the narrative builds toward a sweet finale, Cronin flexes her deadpan wit, particularly in scenes where Bella encourages Eddie to take risks ("Bella promises that if I do die," Eddie narrates before joining her on a roller coaster, "she will help the ride operator to drag my body off the ride and throw it into the sea and then they will call the authorities and say that I fell off the pier while clutching my chest"). It's a winning tale of second chances.
Customer Reviews
Laughed and cried out loud
I enjoyed the penetrating and humorous prose of this very insightful story. It is one of the few books I do not want to see made into a movie, as disappointment would only ensue.