The story of Arthur Truluv

a novel

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The story of Arthur Truluv (2017)

222 pages

English language

Published Nov. 18, 2017

ISBN:
9781400069903
OCLC Number:
966632666

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"Truluv is a moving novel about three people who have lost the person they love most, and must find their way back to happiness. Arthur, a widower, meets Maddy, an angry and friendless teenage girl, while visiting his late wife at the cemetery, where he goes every day for lunch. Against all odds, the two strike up a friendship that pulls them out of a serious rut. They band together with Arthur's nosy neighbor Lucille, to create lives that are truly worth living. Proving that life's most precious moments are sweeter when shared, they go from strangers, to friends, to an untraditional but loving family. Betrayal, loneliness, romance and family are at the heart of this honey of a book, a must-read for fans of Elizabeth Berg's early work. This is a story about life being affirmed at all ages, old and young, and about finding happiness when hope seems …

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Subjects

  • Widowers
  • Fiction
  • Interpersonal relations
  • Teenage girls