The Matchmaker (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780316099752)

In this moving story about losing and finding love again, a woman sets out to find the perfect matches for those closest to her.

Forty-eight-year-old Nantucketer Dabney Kimball Beech has always had a gift for matchmaking. Some call her ability mystical, while others, her husband, celebrated economist John Boxmiller Beech, and her daughter, Agnes, who is clearly engaged to the wrong man, call it meddlesome. But there's no arguing with her results: With 42 happy couples to her credit and all of them still together, Dabney has never been wrong about romance.

Never, that is, except in the case of herself and Clendenin Hughes, the green-eyed boy who took her heart with him long ago when he left the island to pursue his dream of becoming a journalist. Now, after spending twenty-seven years on the other side of the world, Clen is back on Nantucket, and Dabney has never felt so confused, or so alive.

But when tragedy threatens her own second chance, Dabney must face the choices she's made and share painful secrets with her family. Determined to make use of her gift before it's too late, she sets out to find perfect matches for those she loves most.

Author: Elin Hilderbrand
ISBN-10: 0316099759
ISBN-13: 9780316099752
Publisher: Little Brown and Company
Language: English
Published: 06/10/2014
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.30lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.00w x 1.30d

Review Citation(s):
Library Journal Prepub Alert 01/01/2014 pg. 67
Kirkus Reviews 05/15/2014
Publishers Weekly 05/19/2014
Booklist 06/01/2014 pg. 40
Romantic Times 07/01/2014 pg. 32 - Excellent
People Weekly 06/09/2014 pg. 42