Lizzie & Dante
Book Feature - Lizzie & Dante by Mary Bly
HBL Note: The name Mary Bly may not be familiar to you, but I bet you know her better as Eloisa James, the bestselling romance novelist. LIZZIE & DANTE is the first book to be published under Mary’s real name. By day, Mary is a Shakespeare scholar and professor at Fordham University. Thus, LIZZE & DANTE is close to her heart, being an homage to one of Shakespeare’s most well-known plays, Romeo & Juliet. Fair warning: be prepared for tears. Like Me Before You and The Fault in Our Stars kind of tears. Scroll down to read more.
Book Feature - Lizzie & Dante by Mary Bly
Book Feature - Lizzie & Dante by Mary Bly
From the publisher:
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, Lily, 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.
Book Feature - Lizzie & Dante by Mary Bly
