Someone Wonderful [Audiobook] [Audio CD]

Barbara Neil (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: January 16, 2006

Set in London and Tuscany, this story of love and loss follows the lives of six people as the author explores the limits of our capacity to protect our own in a novel which is both joyous and heartbreaking.

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Editorial Reviews

From Publishers Weekly

Something wonderful indeed is this story of a young English woman's growth into love and maturity in a family of beautifully realized, slightly damaged human beings. Lily Teape, the illegitimate daughter of a well-to-do young woman killed in a boating accident, was raised by her aunt Grace, widowed by the same accident. Her childhood spent following Grace in her pursuit of romance and perfect marriage--Happily Ever After, Grace calls it--Lily develops into a self-contained, realistic young woman who remakes beautiful old clothing. She also helps watch over Sebastian, the blind son of Grace's brother Oliver, a famous photographer. Grace finally marries a violent artist much younger than herself; Oliver and Lily fall precipitously in love, although he is terminally ill with a rare neurological disease. Complications increase when Grace's husband and Oliver's wife begin an affair at a family gathering in Tuscany. Juggling the demands of fantasy and reality, Lily struggles to protect both Grace and Sebastian, even as she and Oliver determine not to turn away from the horror of his impending death. Deft at plotting--characters are revealed more in what they do than what they say--Neil ( As We Forgive ) writes with grace and heart, and not a whit of sentimentality. Literary Guild and Doubleday Book Club alternates.
Copyright 1989 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

From Library Journal

Lily Teape's overriding need to bear the burdens of those she loves entangles her in the secret fears and guilts of her aunt Grace, a middle-aged woman with a penchant for younger men; the desperately ill Oliver and his son Sebastian, blind from birth; and Oliver's wife Melissa, who hides her loathing of physical debility in highly visible charity work. But when a fortune hunter marries Grace and threatens the stability of the whole eccentric family, it is Sebastian who takes matters in hand. The writing is thoroughly British and the resolution thoroughly satisfactory. Recommended for public libraries.
- Maurice Taylor, Brunswick Cty. Lib., Southport, N.C.
Copyright 1989 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Product Details

• Audio CD
• Publisher: Oakhill Publishing Limited (January 16, 2006)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1846480388
• ISBN-13: 978-1846480386

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