Finding Colin Firth

From the author ofThe Meryl Streep Movie Club a heartwarming spirit-lifting read just in time for beach season (Kirkus Reviews) comes a new novel about three women connected in secret and surprising ways who are in for a life-changing summer when rumor has it that actor Colin Firth is coming to their Maine town to film a movie.After losing her job and leaving her beloved husband journalist Gemma Hendricks is sure that scoring an interview with Colin Firth will save her career andmarriage. Yet a heart-tugging local story about women family ties love and loss captures her heart--and changes everything. The story concerns Bea Crane a floundering twenty-two-year old who learns in a deathbed confession letter that she was adopted at birth. Bea is in Boothbay Harbor to surreptitiously observe her biological mother Veronica Russo--something of a legend in town--who Bea might not be ready to meet after all. Veronica a thirty-eight-year-old diner waitress famous for her healing pies has come home to Maine to face her past. But when she''s hired as an Extra on the bustling movie set she wonders if she''s hiding from the truth . . . and perhaps the opportunity of a real life Mr. Darcy.These three women will discover more than they ever imagined in this coastal Maine town buzzing with hopes of Colin Firth. Even the conjecture of his arrival inspires daydreams amplifies complicated lives and gives incentive to find their own romantic endings.Praise for The Meryl Streep Movie ClubConsume with a bowl of popcorn and plenty of hankies. --Publishers WeeklyThis is a fun highly-readable story that begs to be discussed and should be a winner with book clubs! --Beth Hoffman New York Times bestselling author of Saving CeeCee Honeycutt and Looking For Me