The Postman's Fiancée

Author: Denis Thériault
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1786071142
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 112

Book Description
The much-anticipated follow-up to the Radio 2 Book Club-favourite The Peculiar Life of a Lonely Postman Twenty-two-year-old Tania has moved to Montreal to study, fine-tune her French and fall in love. Finding work as a waitress in an unpretentious down-town restaurant, she meets Bilodo, a shy postman who spends his days perfecting his calligraphy and writing haiku. The two hit it off. But then one stormy day their lives take a dramatic turn, and as their destinies become entwined Tania and Bilodo are led into a world where nothing is as it seems. A charming standalone work that reunites readers with the touching and much-loved characters first found in The Peculiar Life of a Lonely Postman, The Postman’s Fiancée is an enchanting, poignant and bittersweet love story that will move readers, young and old alike.

The Peculiar Life of a Lonely Postman

Author: Denis Theriault
Publisher: Oneworld
ISBN: 9781786070531
Category : Letter carriers
Languages : en
Pages : 128

Book Description
Bilodo lives a solitary daily life, routinely completing his post round every day and returning to his empty Montreal apartment. But he has found a way to break the cycle - Bilodo has taken to stealing people's mail, steaming open the envelopes and reading the letters inside. And so it is he comes across Segolene's letters. She is corresponding with Gaston, a master poet, and their letters are each composed of only three lines. They are writing each other haikus. The simplicity and elegance of their poems move Bilado and he begins to fall in love with her. But one day, out on his round, he witnesses a terrible and tragic accident. Just as Gaston is walking up to the post-box to mail his next haiku to Segolene, he is hit by a car and dies on the side of the road. And so Bilodo makes an extraordinary decision - he will impersonate Gaston and continue to write to Segolene under this guise. But how long can the deception continue for?

The Peculiar Life of a Lonely Postman

Author: Denis Thériault
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1786070545
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 86

Book Description
*Selected for Simon Mayo’s BBC Radio 2 Book Club* 'Quirky and charming' Guardian For readers of The Hen Who Dreamed She Could Fly and The Guest Cat comes this passionate, bittersweet love story that will move readers old and young Secretly steaming open envelopes and reading the letters inside, Bilodo has found an escape from his lonely and routine life as a postman. When one day he comes across a mysterious letter containing a single haiku, he finds himself avidly caught up in the relationship between a long-distance couple who write to each other using only beautiful poetry. He feasts on their words, vicariously living a life for which he longs. But it will only be a matter of time before his world comes crashing down around him.

The American Fiancée

Author: Eric Dupont
Publisher: HarperCollins
ISBN: 006294746X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 672

Book Description
In this extraordinary breakout novel—a rich, devastatingly humorous epic of one unforgettable family—award-winning author Eric Dupont illuminates the magic of stories, the bonds of family, and the twists of fate and fortune to transform our lives. Over the course of the twentieth century, three generations of the Lamontagnes will weather love, passion, jealousy, revenge, and death. Their complicated family dynamic—as dramatic as Puccini’s legendary opera, Tosca—will propel their rise, and fall, and take them around the world . . . until they finally confront the secrets of their complicated pasts. Born on Christmas, Louis Lamontagne, the family’s patriarch, is a larger-than-life lothario and raconteur who inherits his mother’s teal eyes and his father’s brutish good looks and whose charms travel beyond Quebec, across the state of New York where he wins at county fairs as a larger-than-life strongman, and even in Europe, where he is deployed for the US Army during World War II. We meet his daughter, Madeleine, who opens a successful chain of diners using the recipes from her grandmother, the original American Fiancée, and vows never to return to her hometown. And we end with her son Gabriel, another ladies’ man in the family, who falls in love with a woman he follows to Berlin and discovers unexpected connections there to the Lamontagne family that re-frame the entire course of the events in the book. An unholy marriage of John Irving and Gary Shteyngart with the irresistible whimsy of Elizabeth McCracken, The American Fiancée is a big, bold, wildly ambitious novel that introduces a dynamic new voice to contemporary literature. Translated from the French by Peter McCambridge.

Tom's Fiancée

Author: Eulora M. Jennings
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 40

Book Description

His Emergency Fiancée

Author: Kate Hardy
Publisher: Harlequin
ISBN: 1460377990
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 152

Book Description
From fake fiancée...to wife for real? Playboy A&E doctor Ben Robertson has an emergency: he needs a fiancée quick! He'd invented a fiancee to keep a certain person happy—who is now demanding to meet his bride-to-be! Ben has no choice but to beg his housemate, surgeon Kirsty Brown, to play the part. Kirsty reluctantly agrees, but regrets her decision as soon as she discovers what's involved: she's expected to wear Ben's ring, attend engagement parties as his blushing bride and share his bed! Ben is her friend—not her lover—so why is she suddenly wishing she were his real fiancée after all?

Falling for His Fake Fiancée

Author: Gillian Blakely
Publisher: Ecila Media Corp
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 317

Book Description
There's a brooding hunk under her roof. How's a girl supposed to resist six feet of blue-eyed temptation? Gretchen Mascoe has secretly loved her best friend's brother for years. Too bad she's not his type. When he's injured in an accident and her house is his only option for recovery, she'll do whatever it takes to get him on the mend and on his way. Unfortunately, her plan backfires. Now she's stuck playing house with a guy that will never be hers. Greg Fairchild wakes up in the hospital with a banged-up leg, a killer headache and a fake fiancée. He doesn't care what she calls herself so long as she gets him out of there. If only her fib didn't snowball. Now he's seeing a whole new side of his sister's usually quiet and buttoned-up friend. For starters, where did that mind-melting chemistry come from? Suddenly, one week with her isn't enough. Note: This book was previously released under the title GO FOR IT. The contents are the same. Read the rest of the Girls' Night series: Scoring with the Football Star (JJ & Trevor, Book 1) Saved by the Reluctant Bodyguard (Baby & Joe, Book 3)

Zuleikha

Author: Guzel Yakhina
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1786073501
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 492

Book Description
WINNER OF THE BIG BOOK AWARD, THE LEO TOLSTOY YASNAYA POLYANA AWARD AND THE BEST PROSE WORK OF THE YEAR AWARD SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2020 READ RUSSIA PRIZE RUNNER-UP FOR THE EBRD LITERATURE PRIZE, 2020 Zuleikha is the model of a dutiful wife. Biddible and meek, she has resigned herself to brutal treatment at the hands of her cruel husband and the carping of her despotic mother-in-law. While Russia reels in the aftermath of its recent revolution, life in her small Tatar village is relatively untouched. Or so it seems to Zuleikha, until the day her husband is executed by communist soldiers. Zuleikha is exiled to Siberia and forced to leave behind everything she knows. Yet in that harsh, desolate wilderness, she begins to build a new life for herself and discovers an inner strength she never knew she had. This is a supremely ambitious epic about one woman's determination, not only to survive, but to flourish in the face of the greatest adversity.

The Boy Who Belonged to the Sea

Author: Denis Thériault
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1786073366
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 147

Book Description
An award-winning story of friendship and the power of imagination, from the celebrated author of The Peculiar Life of a Lonely Postman The loss of a parent brought them together. Two boys united by grief. Set on the rugged north shore of the Gulf of St. Lawrence, Canada, where the wind merges with the forest and the waves, where albatross whirl overhead and snow lies deep on the land, two lonely boys form a powerful friendship. Together they take refuge in a magical undersea world of their own creation, searching for a sense of belonging. But for one of them the line between fantasy and reality begins to blur, and the loyalty of his friend is put to the test in a journey that threatens to end in tragedy. Infused with his characteristic charm, Denis Thériault’s novel The Boy Who Belonged to the Sea is a powerful fable about the pain of losing someone you love and the longing for security, which has touched readers’ hearts all over the world.

The Aviator

Author: Eugene Vodolazkin
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1786072726
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 279

Book Description
'THE MOST IMPORTANT LIVING RUSSIAN WRITER' New Yorker MY HEAD SPINS. I'M LYING IN A BED. WHERE AM I? WHO AM I? A man wakes up in hospital. He has no idea who he is or how he came to be there. The doctor tells him his name, but he doesn't remember it. He remembers nothing. As memories slowly resurface, he begins to build a picture of his former life. Russia in the early twentieth century, the turbulence of the revolution, the aftermath. But how can this be possible when the pills beside his bed are dated 1999? In the deft hands of Eugene Vodolazkin, author of the multi award-winning Laurus, The Aviator paints a vivid, panoramic picture of life in Russia at the beginning of the twentieth century, richly evoking the sights, sounds and political turmoil of those days. Reminiscent of the great works of Russian literature, and shortlisted for the Russian Booker Prize, it cements Vodolazkin's position as the rising star of Russia's literary scene.