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After abruptly losing her job, Sylvia escapes New York and flies to Florence. This might sound larky, but she’s carrying excess baggage literally and emotionally. She hooks up with handsome, well-off Henry, and off they go, meandering across Europe in an erotic fugue state. They even take the scenic route when it comes to sharing their family histories, skirting inconvenient facts and selecting more picturesque elements. Sylvia is stand-up-comic hilarious, going off on uproarious tangents involving everything from Raisinettes to shampoo, assimilation, and Arthur Murray dance studios, and issuing zingers of startling precision. It’s good, droll fun, until pleasure gives way to denial, lies, and desperate measures, and the full implications of their pasts emerge. Not only are Sylvia and Henry fugitives from unloving parents and their own terrible mistakes, Sylvia also carries the indelible wounds of the Holocaust. Absurdly underrated Kirshenbaum is at her darkly comic and boldly encompassing best here, diverting us with hairpin-turn humor while slipping us hard truths about memory and inheritance, betrayal and guilt, and the inevitable end of the road. --Donna Seaman
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Finding out that her husband is trying to sell Willowbrook, property that has been in her family for generations, is the last straw for Ella Turner. She and Miles have been at odds since the birth of their daughter Amy, who suffers from SMA, a genetic disorder. Three years after the divorce, Cameron O'Neal arrives to view the property for a ruthless corporation that is determined to acquire it. Cameron is actually finished with the corporate life; this is his last assignment before changing careers. Ella's property in Wiltshire outside of London takes his breath away, as does its beautiful owner. Recognizing Willowbrook's historic value, Cameron promptly quits his job. He will do anything so that Ella can hold on to her property--and maybe him as well if he can convince her that he is a friend, not a foe. Jacobs' gentle English romance will keep readers happily entertained. --Booklist, 1st May 2009
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