This is one of the very few instances where I saw the movie before I read the book! I fell in love with Hope Springs (I'm a HUGE Colin Firth fan) - and when I realised the movie was based on I book I had to have it - I ordered this from the States because I couldn't get it in Australia.

Ready to be mailed out as part of my massive book clearance. Just waiting on a satchel from catsalive.

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Posted today.

Thanks blue1236.

cover blurb:
As a discerning reader of nineteenth-century American fiction, Englishman Colin Ware is familiar with the tradition of transcending disastrous love affairs by booking the next ocean liner to Europe. Now that he has experienced the pain and humiliation of heartache firsthand, he decides to try this cure in reverse.

New Cardiff, Vermont, may be an infinitesimal blot on the rural American landscape, but to Colin it's the ideal place to mend his broken heart. The townsfolk are a quirky, endearing lot, and they welcome the migrating artist into their fold. Colin does his part by capturing his adopted countrymen and women in charcoal and ink. He even discovers love again -- with Mandy, an attendant at the Shining Shores nursing home. When Colin's ex arrives to woo him back to her and his native land, he has to choose between his new love and the woman he's known for years.

With its pitch-perfect dialogue, New Cardiff takes readers on the exhilarating cross-cultural odyssey of a man hurtling headlong into life.

A pretty good yarn & very easy to read but I think I enjoyed the move, Hope Springs, more than I did the book. The story is written entirely in dialogue, except for an introductory paragraph or two in each chapter, which certainly does away with all those long, boring descriptive fillers. However, I fail to see how anyone could fall in love based on the stilted dialogue contained herein. Despite my scepticism, I read it straight through, & pictured Colin Firth the whole time.

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Travelling companion to some other books. Read or release.

Received with a book selected from Oz VBB

Added to Caversham little library.

Removed from Caversham Little Library to release at work.

Donated to workplace bookswap