{Thank you to @tlcbooktours + @harperperennial for the #gifted copy of Eddie Winston is Looking for Love. It comes with my highest praise.}
Short Review: I hugged the book when I finished it!
Full of love. A hopeless romantic. Dealing with grief. A heartwarming friendship.
Eddie Winston is ninety years old and has never been kissed. He had a special woman in his life, his dear Birdie, when he was much younger, but she was already married, so it wasn’t meant to be. These days, he spends his days working in a charity shop sorting through donations. He feels it’s his duty to preserve letters and tokens of love, which he puts aside on his “Eddie shelf”.
One day he meets an eclectic young woman, Bella, when she comes and donates some things after losing the love of her life. Eddie wisely puts aside these items for when Bella is ready. Bella and Eddie form an unlikely friendship and when she learns he has never had his first kiss, she is determine to help him.
This book feels like a quiet adventure. Hot tip: It takes a minute to settle into the story because it weaves from present, to Eddie’s earlier days, while also weaving in letters Bella is writing in an attempt to deal with her grief. It has short chapters and at under 300 pages it moves at a great pace.
I’m a such sucker for octogenarian characters. While a lot of these books they are also tend to be curmudgeon characters, Eddie is a ray of sunshine. I just adored Eddie and Bella!
If the author’s name looks familiar she also wrote ‘The One Hundred Years of Lenni and Margot’.
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