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Twelve Times Blessed

A Novel

by Jacquelyn Mitchard
Robin Miles
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On a snowy night in Cape Cod, True Dickinson's friends have gathered to celebrate her 43rd birthday, leading True to reflect upon her life. On the one hand, both her son and her small business are thriving. On the other, she feels youth and beauty slipping away, and the possibility of romance has never seemed more remote. But everything will change in the moment True slides off the road into a snow-filled ditch on the drive home. Twelve Times Blessed is the story of one year of a woman's life in which everything changes, and an unforgettable tale of the pleasures and perils of love in the modern age.

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  • Release date

    August 2, 2006

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    • OverDrive Listen audiobook

      • ISBN: 9780792743842
      • File size: 616864 KB
      • Duration: 21:25:07

  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • AudioFile Magazine
      The title refers to the business started by True Dickinson: a gift-of-the-month club for new babies and their moms. Aside from her flourishing business, True has a young son, a mother, friends with lives of their own, and her own feelings of loss and emptiness, until she meets a man . . . a younger man. Narrator Robin Miles delivers the story in straightforward fashion and creates various voices and accents from Cape Cod to New Orleans to color the dialogue. In the author interview at the end of the tape Mitchard expresses her preference for narrators who vocally differentiate characters. Miles does so, but, unfortunately, many of the voices she provides are unsympathetic to the characters and, therefore, do not succeed. J.P. (c) AudioFile 2003, Portland, Maine
    • Publisher's Weekly

      February 24, 2003
      The author of The Deep End of the Ocean
      delivers once again in this overstuffed story about a middle-aged woman's complicated second marriage. She chronicles one year in the life of True Dickinson, the owner of a thriving mail-order business on Cape Cod. Widowed for eight years, she is raising her 10-year-old son, Guy, with the help of her office assistant, Isabelle, and her controlling mother, Kathleen. On her 43rd birthday, she is lamenting her lack of love life when fate, in the form of a road accident, brings her together with Hank Bannister, a man 10 years younger than she. They court and marry quickly—then life gets tricky. Having been freewheeling most of his life, Hank is loath to accept his new responsibilities. True, for her part, must do more than just pencil him into her structured life; he wants to feel needed and integral. Hank, a sexy chef of Creole background, is as much a laid-back Southerner as True is a mistrustful New Englander. "He may be one in a million. Or this may be the biggest ratio of bullshit since time began," True thinks. Mitchard infuses the courtship and domestic life with gentle humor. Kathleen is a caricature of the withholding mother, but such characters as True's brother, Dog; her new mother-in-law, Clothilde; and True herself resonate with distinctive voices as Mitchard explores the intimate details involved in making a family work. 14-city author tour; rights sold in Holland, Italy, the U.K. and Poland. (Apr.)Forecast:Mitchard's fans will flock to buy this book, since most of them are aware of her well-publicized marriage to a man a decade her junior.

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