Love and its many contemporary
complications have become the hallmarks of Beth Harbison's cleverly titled novels.
In
Chose the Wrong Guy, Gave Him the Wrong Finger, a single woman is forced
to come to terms with two brothers who broke her heart ten years before.
Harbison sets up a love
triangle that's sure to please fans of entertaining, light-hearted women's
fiction.
In this story, small town girl Quinn
Barton had every intention of marrying her high school sweetheart, Burke
Morrison. Moments before she is to walk down the aisle, however, her
brother-in-law Frank pulls the twenty-one year-old bride aside and announces
that Burke, his brother, has been cheating on her. Quinn, appalled, calls off
the wedding and has a short-lived rebound relationship with Frank that
ultimately fizzles. For the next ten years, with the boys having departed their
Middleburg, Virginia hometown, Quinn stays behind, married to her job running a
local bridal shop.
When Burke and Frank's eccentric, 82
year-old grandmother decides to marry again, she hires Quinn to make her
wedding gown. Might this be a scheme to lure the boys back to town? When they
arrive for the ceremony, and to tie up loose ends on the family farm, Quinn
realizes the story of the Morrison brothers and the depth of her feelings for
them, are not really over - and vice-versa.
Harbison (When
in Doubt, Add Butter) has once again created an endearing, humorous
story with laugh out loud twist and turns. The interior intimacy of her witty,
first person point of view protagonist leads readers on a well-balanced,
romantic journey from true love to heartbreak - and back again.
St.
Martin's Press, $25.99, hardcover, 9780312599133 , 384 pp
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