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VALENCIA AND VALENTINE By: Suzy Krause
Lake Union Publishing
June 2019
On Sale: June 1, 2019
ISBN: 1542040396 EAN: 9781542040396 Kindle: B07HF4KMQL Trade Size / e-Book
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Women's Fiction
For readers of Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine, debut author Suzy Krause delivers a quirky, colorful story about love, loss, second chances, and what it means to truly live. Valencia, a timid debt collector with crippling OCD, is afraid of many things, but the two that scare her most are flying and turning thirty-five. To confront those fears, Valenciaβs therapist suggests that she fly somewhereβanywhereβbefore her upcoming birthday. And as Valencia begins a telephone romance with a man from New York, she suddenly has a destination in mind. Thereβs only one problemβhe might not actually exist. Mrs. Valentine is an eccentric old woman desperate for company, be it from neighbors, telemarketers, or even the funeral director (when youβre her age, you go to a lot of funerals). So sheβs thrilled when the new cleaning girl provides a listening ear for her lifeβs storyβa tale of storybook love and incredible adventures around the world with her husband before his mysterious and sudden disappearance. The stories of Valencia and Mrs. Valentine may at first appear to have nothing in commonβ¦but then again, nothing in life is as straightforward as it seems.
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