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HUGO AND ROSE

Bridget Foley

HUGO AND ROSE is a high concept novel about a married woman who dreams of the same man each night, then one day meets him in real life.

Rose is by most qualifications an ordinary housewife, but for her dreams. Since childhood, she has always dreamt of the same island, with the same imaginary companion: a heroic boy named Hugo. Rose’s own boys now live for tales of Hugo and Rose’s adventures, battling giant spiders and bouncing on the pink sand of the Blanket Pavilion. And each night, after putting her sleepy children to bed, Rose escapes from the monotony of diapers and cracker crumbs to become a more perfect, fully-realized version of herself. Until one day, Rose stumbles across Hugo in real life, and everything changes. Here is the man who truly knows her, who grew up with her, even if they aren’t what either imagined. His very existence defies logic, and begins a cascade of questions, lies, and a dangerous obsession that threatens everything she holds dear. A metaphysical fairy tale, much like The Time Traveler’s Wife, The Returned, and The Thinking Woman’s Guide to Real Magic, HUGO AND ROSE dabbles in neuroscience, quantum physics, and philosophy while grappling with the everyday struggles of marriage and family life. The author, Bridget Foley, is an exceptional storyteller, and her suspenseful plotting will have readers eagerly turning each page. She has had several screenplays optioned by Academy Award nominated producers and is often featured on annual industry best-of lists. This is her first novel.

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Book Published 2015-05-01 by St. Martin`s Press

Comments

Gripping from the start, HUGO & ROSE seamlessly intertwines the real and the subconscious into an exciting and engrossing tale teeming with imagination.

Foley’s imaginative and insightful novel will hold readers spellbound as it builds to a stunning conclusion.

Italy: E/O, Brazil: Novo Fronteira

Foley's debut is an inventive, cinematic domestic novel filled with Wizard of Oz–like dreams.

I devoured this tale of dreams and waking life, and I'm still deliciously mulling it over--the ideas inside the ideas inside the ideas. It's wonderfully constructed, provocative, and beautifully written. Smart book clubs are going to love it!

An ambitious, haunting page turner that you can't stop thinking about long after you finish reading. Beautiful, lyrical writing, great characters and someone drives a minivan. What more could you want?

A more pastoral-minded author might take this twist in its obvious, romantic direction, but Foley makes it clear that there will be no easy way out of this surprising clash of lives... Foley delivers a compelling tale.

Bridget Foley has pulled off something miraculous here. Hugo and Rose combines scifi with suburbia, fantasy with parenting, giant spiders with screaming toddlers. This genre-bender is a smart, insightful, romping take on marriage and motherhood unlike any I've ever read. Via lovely prose and wild imagination, Hugo and Rose took me places I'd simply never been before.

Vibrantly imagined and flawlessly executed, Bridget Foley's HUGO & ROSE is a book that will stay with the reader long after finishing it. Unique and heartfelt, this story is riveting and unexpected in its examination of what happens when dreams and reality collide. Buy a copy for you mom, your sister, and your best friend because HUGO & ROSE captures the kind of magic you'll want to share.