Wise Follies - Softcover

Wynne-Jones, Grace

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ISBN 10: 1909840483 ISBN 13: 9781909840485

Publisher: Accent Press, 2013

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Why waving goodbye to Mr Wonderful may be the wisest folly of all... Alice Evans has got a GSOH, GFCH (gas-fired central heating), a cat and a Mitsubishi colour portable. People have told her she can look pretty if she tries. She's thirty-eight and single, so will someone please pass the message on? What Alice thinks she needs is Mr Wonderful. A man like her pottery teacher, James Mitchel, who's warm and wise and gorgeous. But as one long, hot summer disappears with no sign of her snaring the man of her dreams, Alice is forced to consider the alternatives. Should she settle for Mr Mediocre, her dull but dependable ex boyfriend Eamon, and spend the rest of her days trying to like golf? Or could there be another way for a woman to ditch all the longing - and really start living her life?

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About the Author

Grace Wynne-Jones was born and brought up in Ireland and has also lived in Africa, the US and England. She is the author of four critically acclaimed novels and her feature articles have appeared in many magazines and national papers in Ireland and in England. She has frequently been praised for the warm belly-laugh humour and tender poignancy in her writing and has been described as 'a novelist who tells the truth about the human heart'.

Review

Wise Follies is a smooth refreshing read... Bring tissues and a paper bag to laugh into when you read this book outside the privacy of your home. * Irish Tatler * Sharp, funny and moving. * Woman & Home * When you think Alice, think Bridget Fonda chasing Matt Dillon in Singles, think Kirsty MacColl singing 'I put you on a pedestal/You put me on the pill'... This is a novel about finding yourself, and we can't but cheer for Alice's gradual emancipation. * The Irish Examiner *

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