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03306aam a2200433 i 4500 001 9609EF30B8CA11EDAC6855BD37ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20230302011926 008 220906t20232012meu d 000 1 eng 010 $a 2022042414 020 $a 9798885786188 (large print : softcover) 035 $a (OCoLC)1343870210 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d OCLCF $d SILO 042 $a pcc 050 10 $a PR6060.E95 $b B44 2023 082 00 $a 823/.914 $2 23 100 1 $a Jewell, Lisa, $e author. 245 10 $a Before I met you : $b a novel / $c Lisa Jewell. 250 $a Large print edition. 260 $a Waterville, Maine : $b Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company, $c 2023. 263 $a 2302 300 $a 685 pages (large print) ; $c 23 cm. 520 $a "Jazz Age London, a passionate and forbidden interracial romance, and the unbreakable bond between a bright young woman and her eccentric grandmother come together brilliantly in this gem of a novel from the New York Times bestselling author of Then She Was Gone, perfect for fans of Downton Abbey, Twenties Girl, and The Chaperone. After her grandmother Arlette's death, Betty is finally ready to begin her life. She had forfeited university, parties, boyfriends, summer jobs--all the usual preoccupations of a woman her age--in order to care for Arlette in their dilapidated, albeit charming home on the English island of Guernsey. Her will included a beneficiary unknown to Betty and her family, a woman named Clara Pickle who presumably could be found at a London address. Now, having landed on a rather shabby street corner in '90s Soho, Betty is determined to find the mysterious Clara. She's ready for whatever life has to throw her way. Or so she thinks... In 1920s bohemian London, Arlette De La Mare is starting her new life in a time of postwar change. Beautiful and charismatic, she is soon drawn into the hedonistic world of the Bright Young People. But two years after her arrival in London, tragedy strikes and she flees back to her childhood home and remains there for the rest of her life. As Betty navigates the ups and downs of city life and begins working as a nanny for a rock star tabloid magnet, her search for Clara leads her to a man--a stranger to Betty, but someone who meant the world to her grandmother. Will the secrets of Arlette's past help Betty find her own way to happiness in the present? A rich detective story and a captivating look at London then and now, Before I Met You is an unforgettable novel about two very different women, separated by seventy years, but united by big hearts and even bigger dreams"-- $c Provided by publisher. 650 0 $a Family secrets $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Nineteen twenties $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Large type books. 651 0 $a London (England) $v Fiction. 655 7 $a Historical fiction. $2 lcgft 655 7 $a Romantic suspense fiction. $2 lcgft 941 $a 7 945 $a lpt 952 $l VQPC384 $d 20240412144828.0 952 $l EYPC755 $d 20240117011932.0 952 $l LYPB815 $d 20231013132123.0 952 $l YSPD232 $d 20230923010830.0 952 $l TYPH572 $d 20230512010811.0 952 $l XXPH787 $d 20230405013401.0 952 $l GBPF771 $d 20230302012603.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=9609EF30B8CA11EDAC6855BD37ECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search