Laurie is pretty sure love at first sight doesn’t exist anywhere but the movies. Types of people you meet at the library.
The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue – V. The Astonishing Colour of After – Emily X. The Queen of Nothing (Folk of the Air #3) – Holly Black. The Wicked King (Folk of the Air #2) – Holly Black. The Cruel Prince (Folk of the Air #1) – Holly Black. Truly Devious Trilogy – Maureen Johnson. House of Sky and Breath (Crescent City #2) – Sarah J Maas. House of Earth and Blood (Crescent City #1) – Sarah J. Pan’s Labyrinth: The Labyrinth of the Faun. Publisher: Ballantine Books, 358 pages, $17. Laurie Hertzel is the senior editor for books at the Star Tribune. In different ways, both of them slowly come to understand that it's no good loving someone else until you learn to love yourself. Silver understands that by our 30s our lives have become complicated and messy, and both Mack and Cleo - as well as the highly entertaining secondary characters - have full-formed lives, problems and quirks. When it becomes clear that neither will leave, they draw a chalk line down the middle of the cottage and come to an uneasy truce. You might think this is a meet-cute situation, but Silver is smarter than that both Cleo and Mack have so much baggage and so many entanglements that all they really want is to be alone. Shortly after Cleo arrives, so does a rugged American stranger, a photographer named Mack who is giving his failing marriage some space while researching his Irish roots. /arc-anglerfish-arc2-prod-shropshirestar-mna.s3.amazonaws.com/public/CTE6O4GDEFF6BMTB32N4O6XESU.jpg "josie silver")
It's well-appointed, it's remote, it faces the sea, it's everything Cleo had hoped, except for one thing: It was double-booked. So off she goes to a remote island off the coast of Ireland to come to terms with singledom.
(It's either that or a tattoo, apparently.)īut Cleo has to believe it, first. Most of "One Night on the Island" is narrated by Cleo Wilder, a singles columnist for a London magazine who chronicles her own dismal dating life for readers.Īs Cleo's 30th birthday approaches, her editor suggests that she take a long vacation and "marry herself" - that is, affirm that it is not a failure to be single, and that as "a vibrant, independent woman" she understands there are many ways to have a successful life. In Silver's hands, it's a place with mountains and rain, crashing ocean and tide pools, friendly strangers and a whiff of love.
Josie Silver's third novel walks a romantic line between fantasy and reality, and that turns out to be a very satisfying place to dwell for 350 pages.
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