Eddie Winston Is Looking for Love, Marianne Cronin
Eddie Winston Is Looking for Love, Marianne Cronin
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Eddie Winston Is Looking for Love
A Novel

Author: Marianne Cronin

Narrator: Kim Durham, Clare Corbett, Natalie Nightingale

Unabridged: 7 hr 52 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 12/31/2024

Synopsis

The author of the beloved international hit The One Hundred Years of Lenni and Margot returns with a funny, uplifting story about the power of friendship and finding love in unexpected places.Eddie Winston is 90 years old. He has lived and he has loved, but he has never been kissed.A true gentleman and incurable romantic, Eddie spends his days volunteering at a charity shop, where he sorts through the donations of the living and the dead, preserving letters and tokens of love along the way. And it is here that he meets Bella, a troubled young woman who, at 24 years old, has just lost the love of her life.When Bella learns that Eddie is yet to have his first kiss, she resolves to help Eddie Winston finally find love, sparking an adventure that will take them to unexpected places and, they hope, bring Eddie Winston to the moment he has waited for all his life.A tale of friendship and kindness that reminds us that those we love are never forgotten and it is never too late to try again.

About Marianne Cronin

Marianne Cronin was born in 1990 and grew up in Warwickshire. After gaining her PhD in applied linguistics, she worked in academia until becoming a writer. Her first novel, The One Hundred Years of Lenni and Margot, published by Harper Perennial in 2021, was shortlisted for a Goodreads Choice Award for Fiction, and received the American Library Association Alex Award. She lives in the Midlands with her family and her cat.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Jayme on January 01, 2025

4.5 stars ⭐️ A GREAT BOOK TO START THE NEW YEAR WITH! Eddie Winston is a 90 year old who laughs easily and loves with all of his heart. An incurable romantic, Eddie spends his days volunteering at a charity shop, where he sorts through donations and secretly salvages love letters and other items that......more

Goodreads review by Canadian Jen on March 22, 2025

This was just what I needed. A dose of charm and whimsy with a character who is so loveable! Meet Eddie Winston. A 90 year old who has never been kissed! Can you imagine?! This story gives one further appreciation of nonagenerians -how often have you ever used this word?Their life experiences, their h......more

Goodreads review by Terrie on January 22, 2025

If you've read Marianne Cronin's debut novel The One Hundred Years of Lenni and Margot then you know this author writes touching stories about intergenerational friendship. In Eddie Winston is Looking for Love, Eddie is a nonagenarian with a caring nature and magnetic personality who volunteers his d......more

Goodreads review by Ceecee on May 29, 2024

4-5 stars The much anticipated follow up to the wonderful One Hundred Years of Lenni and Margot is an equally wonderful read. Meet 90 year old Eddie Winston, in a previous life he was a university lecturer and now he works in a charity shop in Birmingham with Marjie. Now, Eddie has quite the backsto......more

Goodreads review by PattyMacDotComma on December 07, 2024

5★ “I’m lining up dead men’s shoes on a rack. How strange that for all their lives, the men who wore these shoes walked a path that would lead to me. At any point, through their childhood or in their teenage years, we were destined to be linked. ” Eddie seems unlikely to be such a captivating protagon......more

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