FINDING COLIN FIRTH

From the author of The Meryl Streep Movie Club comes a new novel about three women, connected in secret and surprising ways, who are in for a life-changing summer when rumor has it that actor Colin Firth is coming to their Maine town to film a movie.

After losing her job and leaving her beloved husband, journalist Gemma Hendricks is sure that scoring an interview with Colin Firth will save her career and marriage. But then a heart-tugging local story about women, family ties, love, and loss, captures her heartand changes eve-rything. The story concerns Bea Crane, a floundering twenty-two-year old who learns in a deathbed confession letter that she was adopted at birth. Bea is in Boothbay Harbor to track down her biological mother, Veronica Russosomething of a legend in townwho Bea might not be ready to meet, after all. Veronica, a thirty-eight-year-old diner waitress famous for her "healing" pies, has come home to Maine to face her past. But when she's hired as an extra on the bustling movie set, she wonders if she's hiding from the truth...and perhaps the opportunity of a real life Mr. Darcy. These three women will discover more than they ever imagined in this coastal Maine town, buzzing with hopes of Colin Firth. Even the conjec-ture of his arrival inspires daydreams, amplifies complicated lives, and gives incentive to find their own romantic endings. Mia March, also the author of The Meryl Streep Movie Club, lives on the coast of Maine. She has been published in 18 languages.