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From the author of My Husband's Sweethearts and The Pretend Wife comes a moving novel about love and hope in the face of loss, in which a small house in the French countryside may be responsible for mending hearts since World War II. Brokenhearted and still mourning the loss of her husband, Heidi travels with Abbot, her obsessive-compulsive eight-year-old son, and Charlotte, her intolerably jaded sixteen-year-old niece, to spend the summer repairing their family home in a small village in the south of France. There, thousands of miles from home, Charlotte makes a shocking confession, and Heidi learns the truth about her mother's "lost summer" when she was a child. As three generations collide with each other, the neighbor next door-who seems to know all their family secrets-and an enigmatic Frenchman, they'll journey through love, loss, and healing amid the lavender fields, warm winds, and pistou soup of Provence. Title Info. Dedication Pt I. (NO CLEAR CHAPTERING) Track 2 Track 3 Track 4 Track 5 Track 6 Track 7 Track 8 Track 9 Track 10 Track 11 Track 12 Track 13 Track 14 Track 15 Track 16 Track 17 Track 18 Track 19 Track 20 Track 21 Track 22 Track 23 Track 24 Track 25 Track 26 Track 27 Track 28 Track 29 Track 30 Track 31 Track 32 Track 33 Track 34 Track 35 Track 36 Track 37 Track 38 Track 39 Track 40 Track 41 Track 42 Track 43 Track 44 Track 45 Track 46 Track 47 Track 48 Track 49 Track 50 Track 51 Track 52 Track 53 Track 54 Track 55 Track 56 Track 57 Track 58 Track 59 Track 60 Track 61 Track 62 Track 63 Track 64 Track 65 Track 66 Track 67 Track 68 Track 69 Track 70 Track 71 Track 72 Track 73 Track 74 Track 75 Track 76 Track 77 Track 78 Track 79 Track 80 Recipe's for the Provence Cure for the Brokenhearted Family Dinner Recipe's Cont. "The Provence Cure for the Brokenhearted will have you canceling dinner plans, staying up all hours, and flat out ignoring your family, just so you can keep reading…An absorbing, beautifully written tale about life, death, love, food, and the magic of new possibilities." "A wicked sense of humor and multilayered characters…Asher is especially adept at portraying Heidi's dry wit and Charlotte's sullen sarcasm." "Readers who enjoy widow lit like Lolly Winston's Good Grief and Jane Green's The Beach House or travel-induced transformation books like Frances Mayes' Under the Tuscan Sun and Elizabeth Gilbert's Eat, Pray, Love will find common themes in Asher's engaging third novel…and become quickly invested in the lives of the deftly drawn characters." "A tearjerker of a novel for both foodies and fans of tightly knit family stories." "Unabashedly romantic and unafraid of melancholy, Asher's book is a real charmer about a Provençal house that casts spells over the lovelorn." "Lovely, pointed, and poignant, filled with specifics about love and grief presented gorgeously." "An enchantment of a book, woven out of Bridget Asher's tenderness toward her characters, her love of the French countryside, and a gentle faith in possibilities. It held me spellbound from the first word to the last, when I put it aside with a sigh of both regret and deepest satisfaction…I madly, madly, madly loved this book!" "Love and its sweet secrets bloom gloriously in The Provence Cure for the Brokenhearted. Bridget Asher offers up a sumptuous exploration of how grief, love, and joy, when stirred just right, ferry us home to the people and places we most cherish. Asher's novel brims with wisdom and laughter, teaching us anew that hope resides in unexpected places: a charred box of beloved recipes, a troubled child's earthy wisdom, an ailing house in need of an artful hand, a mother who listens to a silent mountain, and a kiss that unlocks the puzzle of what forever truly means." "I enjoyed The Provence Cure for the Brokenhearted so much-i

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