Lizzie & Dante: A Novel
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“Delicious.”—People • “Smart, sexy and funny, full of joy in simple pleasures.”—Minneapolis Star-Tribune
What if falling in love means breaking someone’s heart?
On the heels of a difficult break-up and a devastating diagnosis, Shakespeare scholar Lizzie Delford decides to take one last lavish vacation on Elba, the sun-kissed island off the Italian coast, with her best friend and his movie-star boyfriend. Once settled into a luxurious seaside resort, Lizzie has to make big decisions about her future, and she needs the one thing she may be running out of: time.
She leaves the yacht owners and celebrities behind and sneaks off to the public beach, where she meets a sardonic chef named Dante, his battered dog, Lulu, and his wry daughter, Etta, a twelve-year-old desperate for a mother. While Dante shows Lizzie the island’s secrets, and Etta dazzles with her irreverent humor, Lizzie is confronted with a dilemma. Is it right to fall in love if time is short? Is it better to find a mother briefly, or to have no mother at all? And most pressingly, are the delicacies of life worth tasting, even if you will get to savor them only for a short while?
A luscious story of love, courage, and Italian wine, Lizzie & Dante demands to know how far we should travel to find a future worth fighting for.
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Mary Bly. (2021). Lizzie & Dante: A Novel. Random House Publishing Group.
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“Delicious.”—People • “Smart, sexy and funny, full of joy in simple pleasures.”—Minneapolis Star-Tribune
What if falling in love means breaking someone’s heart?
On the heels of a difficult break-up and a devastating diagnosis, Shakespeare scholar Lizzie Delford decides to take one last lavish vacation on Elba, the sun-kissed island off the Italian coast, with her best friend and his movie-star boyfriend. Once settled into a luxurious seaside resort, Lizzie has to make big decisions about her future, and she needs the one thing she may be running out of: time.
She leaves the yacht owners and celebrities behind and sneaks off to the public beach, where she meets a sardonic chef named Dante, his battered dog, Lulu, and his wry daughter, Etta, a twelve-year-old desperate for a mother. While Dante shows Lizzie the island’s secrets, and Etta dazzles with her irreverent humor, Lizzie is confronted with a dilemma. Is it right to fall in love if time is short? Is it better to find a mother briefly, or to have no mother at all? And most pressingly, are the delicacies of life worth tasting, even if you will get to savor them only for a short while?
A luscious story of love, courage, and Italian wine, Lizzie & Dante demands to know how far we should travel to find a future worth fighting for. - reviews
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February 1, 2021
In Bly's Lizzie & Dante, a Shakespearean scholar heads to Italy after an ugly breakup and an end-of-the-road health diagnosis and meets a handsome chef--but is this any time to start a relationship? In debuter Christie's The Rehearsals, Megan Givens and Tom Prescott plan to call off their wedding after a calamitous rehearsal dinner but wake up the next morning in a time loop, endlessly repeating the event until maybe they get it right (100,000-copy first printing). Clancy's Shoulder Season reveals what happens when shy young church organist Sherri Taylor switches paths after her parents' death to become a Playboy bunny (100,000-copy first printing). The New York Times best-selling Guillory's While We Were Dating features Ben Stephens, Theo's brother from The Wedding Party, who's trying to stay strictly professional while working with a famous actress. In Macomber's stand-alone It's Better This Way, Julia Jones has sold her business, moved into a condominium, and put her marital breakup behind her, but she isn't looking for love--until handsome resident Heath comes along. In Island Queen, romance writer Riley goes mainstream historical to reimagine the life of Dorothy Kirwan Thomas, who rose from enslavement to become a rich and powerful landowner in the colonial West Indies (100,000-copy first printing). Pretty Little Liars author Shepard's Safe in My Arms stars three out-of-the-loop moms who try to discover why the principal of the children's elite California preschool was attacked. If you've got Nine Lives, take this journey with Steel from Chicago and Paris to London and Monaco. In Hugo/Bradbury/Eisner winner Straczynski's latest, an unsuccessful young writer pulls together a crew of equally disaffected folks, buys an old bus, and proclaims Together We Will Go--straight to California, where they will then drive off a cliff (100,000-copy first printing). In debuter Yoder's one-of-a-kind Nightbitch, a woman who's convinced that she is turning into a dog ferrets out answers in A Field Guide to Magical Women and links up with a group of mothers with their own secret persuasions. Optioned for film.
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Bly (who writes romances as Eloisa James) delivers an affecting story of a Shakespeare professor with stage 3 cancer and a handsome Italian chef, her first book published without the pseudonym. Dante has a restaurant on the Italian island of Elba, where Lizzie is visiting on a sort of working vacation. When she and Dante meet on the beach, the chemistry between them is undeniable, but Lizzie has given up on men; in fact, she’s more or less given up on life, having given away most of her possessions and informed her doctor she’ll forego treatment after the last, failed round of chemo. But the attraction between the two proves too strong, and Lizzie and Dante become lovers, a situation complicated by Dante’s 12-year-old daughter, Etta, who is searching for a mother figure. Bly renders her characters in pliant and incisive prose; the sex scenes are sexy and the portrait of a woman embarking on the romance of her life while running on borrowed time feels authentic and poignantly drawn, and never mawkish. The nascent relationship between Lizzie and Etta, meanwhile, is especially moving. Bly handles a delicate subject with aplomb. Agent: Kim Witherspoon, InkWell Management.
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Falling in love is not part of Lizzie Delford's new life plan. She intends to vacation on the Italian island of Elba with her best friend, Grey Thurston, and his boyfriend, movie star Rohan Das. Shakespearean scholar Lizzie's job is to help Rohan, who is working on a new approach to Romeo and Juliet, with the creative rewriting process while at the same time coming to terms with her own future. However, one day while sunning herself on the beach, Lizzie encounters an adorably scruffy dog named Lily, then her equally adorably scruffy owner, Dante, and finally, Dante's exuberant, mother-starved teenage daughter, Etta. Suddenly, the choices Lizzie must make have become infinitely more difficult. Bly, known best for the best-selling historical romances she writes as Eloisa James, deftly pivots to contemporary fiction with an emotional roller coaster of a novel that candidly explores such complicated subjects as sex and desire, love and loss, and family and friendship. Whether toothsomely describing Italian dishes, celebrating the natural beauty of Elba, or performing some literary dissection of Romeo and Juliet, Bly writes with a Prosecco-fizzy wit that is simply irresistible, but what will equally resonate with readers is her richly nuanced characters and their embrace of life in all its glorious messiness.COPYRIGHT(2021) Booklist, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.
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A 32-year-old Shakespeare professor with stage 3 cancer learns to embrace life on a vacation in Elba, Italy, in romance author Eloisa James' first novel using her real name--under which she's also a Shakespeare professor at Rutgers. Lizzie Delford leaves New York for six weeks in Italy, traveling with her best friend, Grey, and his partner, movie star Rohan Das. Lizzie is ostensibly on the trip as an adviser to Rohan, who's writing a screenplay for a new film of Romeo and Juliet; but Grey is hoping she will rest and recover from her latest bout of chemo. At the beach, Lizzie meets Dante, a world-renowned chef and single father to Etta, a precocious 12-year-old. As Lizzie contemplates whether she should try more invasive and extreme cancer treatments, she begins an affair with Dante. She can't resist the charming Italian and his love for the island and its history, even as she keeps her diagnosis secret. Slowly, the group bonds into something like a family. The novel grapples with the question of what terminally ill people owe their loved ones and themselves. While her best friend is furious that Lizzie might refuse further treatment, Lizzie worries that her illness is a burden. She feels guilty for falling in love with Dante and his daughter, knowing her time is limited. Bly makes an interesting narrative choice, telling the story from the points of view of Lizzie and Etta, Dante's daughter. Etta is knowledgeable enough about literature to banter with Lizzie about Herman Hesse's Siddhartha and gender roles in Shakespeare's plays, but she's still a child, and her perspective confines the reader's experience of the book. An emotional journey that's stunted by the way it's told.COPYRIGHT(2021) Kirkus Reviews, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.
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What if falling in love means breaking someone’s heart?
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