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Rescuing Rose
- Author: Isabel Wolff
- Category: Fiction Commercial Women’s / Romance
- Publisher: HarperCollins
- Pub date: 5 August 2002
- Length: 464 pages
About Rescuing Rose
The fourth sparkling novel from the bestselling author of THE TRIALS OF TIFFANY TROTT, THE MAKING OF MINTY MALONE and OUT OF THE BLUE has Rose, a prickly agony aunt, fall for the charms of Theo, accountant by day, astronomer by night. who soon has her starry-eyed. But the starcross’d lovers have many obstacles to overcome on the path of true love. Agony aunt Rose has more than a few thorns digging in her side at present. Her seven-month marriage is in tatters, the bills are mounting up at an alarming rate and to top it off, she’s being plagued by a stalker who seems to know rather a lot about the mysterious circumstances of her birth. It’s usually Rose who dishes out the advice, but now she must rely on her wacky friends to come up with some solutions.They suggest she advertise for a lodger and at first, geeky accountant Theo seems the perfect choice for the now resolutely single Rose. However, she becomes intrigued by her new housemate’s fascination with astronomy and he soon has her starry-eyed. But the path of true love never did run smooth, and the starcross’d lovers face stiff opposition in many forms, including the increasingly deranged stalker who is intent on getting Rose’s attention by fair means or foul…
About the Author
Isabel Wolff is a bestselling author whose eight romantic comedy novels have been published in twenty nine languages, selling a million copies in France alone. Isabel’s debut novel, THE TRIALS OF TIFFANY TROTT (HarperCollins 1998) grew out of her popular Daily Telegraph novel of the same name and was swiftly followed by THE MAKING OF MINTY MALONE, OUT OF THE BLUE, RESCUING ROSE, BEHAVING BADLY, A QUESTION OF LOVE, FORGET ME NOT and A VINTAGE AFFAIR, which spent six months in the Amazon contemporary Fiction Top 100 and was an Amazon Book of the Year for 2009. Her latest novel, THE VERY PICTURE OF YOU will be published by HarperCollins in September 2011.
In her fiction Isabel expertly blends pathos with humour to create novels that, while being page-turning, commercial reads are also extremely well-written, engaging, poignant and uplifting. She has been shortlisted for the RNA Romantic Novel of the Year Award (2004) and for the American Libraries Association Reading List - Women’s Fiction (2011).
Before becoming a novelst Isabel was a successful broadcaster and journalist, writing for The Spectator, Evening Standard, Daily Telegraph, Daily Mail and the Independent on Sunday. She has presented radio programmes on BBC World Service and on Radio 4, and was a regular newspaper reviewer on BBC Breakfast news. Isabel lives in London with her family.