For the lovelorn, Amore Pie.” And they seem to work! On everyone except Veronica. For a down-in –the dumps friend, Happiness Pie. And maybe, maybe, maybe, the daughter she’d given up for adoption would contact her.” Now back to those magic pies by Veronica… She calls them elixir pies claiming to cast hope, love or banishment– or anything that conjures up a solution to one’s troubles. You just want to believe everything he says with that British accent of his –and can trust it.’” Having failed to escape haunting memories of her youth, Veronica has come home to confront her past then “maybe her heart would start working the way it was supposed to. ‘I realize he’s an actor playing roles, but I get it,’ Shelley had said. Her friend Shelley from the diner had known exactly what she meant.
“…she’d started saying what felt light-hearted but true at the same time, that she was holding out for a man who felt like Colin Firth to her. After years of failed relationships, her friends worry she will end up alone. In Boothbay, Bea learns that 38-year-old Veronica Russo is an unmarried waitress-slash-magic pie baker-slash-Colin Firth fan who has only in the last year returned to her hometown. But you should know the truth because it is the truth.” Shocked, Bea tracks down her birth mother to Boothbay Harbor, Maine and decides she must see this unknown woman for herself. But I can’t bear to tell you with my final breaths, either, I can’t do that to you. “…Now that I feel myself going, I can’t bear to take this with me. Firth in my little town sets this fan-girl’s heart racing!)Ī year after her mother’s death, (who incidentally was a Colin Firth fan), 22-year-old Bea Crane receives a mysterious letter from her deceased mother, confessing she adopted Bea as a newborn.
Firth’s arrival fuels fantasy and stirs the excitement in their lives and aspirations. Eeesh! It’s a work of fiction about three women unknowingly bound together and whose lives intersect when the actor is slated to film a movie in a coastal Maine town. Who wouldn’t want to find Colin Firth? But no, dear friends, this is not a “How to” book sharing tips and advice on how to track and successfully have a Firth encounter. Darcy in the 1995 adaptation of Pride and Prejudice, but he also has an acclaimed career, winning the best actor Academy Award in 2011 for The King’s Speech. The smolderingly sexy British actor not only won our hearts when he emerged dripping wet from Pemberley pond as Mr. What Janeite would not stop dead in her tracks when she spies “Colin Firth” in the title of a book? Mia March’s latest offering Finding Colin Firth: A Novel certainly set off all my bells and whistles.
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