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How Elizabeth Barrett Browning Saved My Life
Mameve Medwed
#UB4382
Paperback, 326 pages; 2007 (2006)
$6.98
Bear with me. I know I'm getting to the point where I'll have to explain. For now, let's just say the Irish have the Troubles. I have the trouble. Lowercase but not lower in intensity.
Still, misery is misery, whatever the typescript.
With an irreverent, offbeat, and lovably flawed protagonist--and, at the center of all the drama, a chamber pot that once belonged to Elizabeth Barrett Browning--this charming novel is an unusually entertaining romance. In her early thirties, Abby Randolph struggles to make a living as an antiques dealer--and to gain control of her disastrously unlucky love-life. When she takes the aforementioned chamber pot to the Antiques Roadshow, she's suddenly faced with new friends, shifty enemies, and a ghost or two from the past. The way Abby handles all her "trouble" never ceases to amuse, and the literary references throughout the book are irresistibly fun. How Elizabeth Barrett Browning Saved My Life will touch the heart and tickle the funny bone of any bookworm who's ever found herself befuddled by love.
(CH)
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