Synopses & Reviews
Jacquelyn Mitchard is one of America's best-loved storytellers. Fans adore her novels for their exquisite, gripping stories about family bonds. Now this master of the drama of daily life offers readers a different kind of boy-meets-girl tale, by turns frank and playful, that ponders the question: Can love conquer marriage?
It is True Dickinson's forty-third birthday, and her best friends have gathered on this snowy night in Cape Cod at a trendy neighborhood restaurant to celebrate. True has never felt more alone.
It's been eight years since the death of her husband, a pilot who, ironically, died in a car crash, leaving her to raise their son on her own. Both her son and her small business are thriving, and True's life is full. The success of her company, the love of her friends, and the proximity of her mother (for better and for worse) leave her with very little time for reflection, but if not now, when? Coming up on forty-three makes True realize that there is an empty space in her life that friends and family cannot fill. She feels her youth and beauty slipping away, and the possibility for romance has never seemed more remote.
But everything will change the moment True and her beloved assistant, Isabelle, slide into a snow-filled ditch on the drive home. Saved by a young man she met earlier at the restaurant, True comes face-to- face with the opportunity to let love back into her life -- that is, if she can overcome her own fears, and if these two spirits can find a way to tame each other's wild hearts and to curb their supremely independent natures.
Twelve Times Blessed is the story of one year of transformation in a woman's life, and an unforgettable tale of the perils and pleasures of love in the modern age.
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“Entertaining and absorbing.” Chattanooga Times Free Press
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“Jacquelyn Mitchard brings her pitch-perfect rendering of human relationships to her new novel.” Seattle Times
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“Seductively voyeuristic.” Rocky Mountain News
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“Mitchards writing is vivid and absorbing.” Capital Times (Madison, WI)
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“Mitchard is a keen observer of the ebbs and flows of daily life.” Chicago Sun-Times
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“A perfect choice for the beach.” Capital Times (Madison, WI)
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“Mitchard writes seductively, and sometimes with breathtaking honesty, about insecurity and self-absorption, love and lust, family and friendship.” Boston Herald
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“Mitchard has established herself as a master of literary chiaroscuro.” Entertainment Weekly
Synopsis
On a snowy night in Cape Cod, True Dickinson's friends have gathered to celebrate her 43rd birthday, leading True to reflect upon her life. On the one hand, both her son and the small business she started after the death of her husband eight years ago are thriving. On the other, she feels youth and beauty slipping away, and the possibility of romance has never seemed more remote.
But everything will change in the moment True and her best friend Isabelle slide off the road into a snow-filled ditch on the drive home. Twelve Times Blessed is the story of one year of a woman's life in which everything changes, and an unforgettable tale of the pleasures and perils of love in the modern age.
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Everything in True Dickinson's life changes on her 43rd birthday in the moment she and her best friend, Isabelle, slide off the road into a snow-filled ditch. With "literary finesse" ("Booklist"), Mitchard pens the story of one year of a woman's life and an unforgettable tale of the pleasures and perils of love in the modern age.
About the Author
New York Times bestseller Jacquelyn Mitchard's novels include The Deep End of the Ocean, Twelve Times Blessed, and The Breakdown Lane. She is also the author of The Rest of Us: Dispatches from the Mother Ship, a collection of her newspaper columns. She lives with her husband and six children in Madison, Wisconsin.