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Eddie Winston Is Looking for Love: A Novel Kindle Edition

by Marianne Cronin (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
4.6 4.6 out of 5 stars 464 ratings
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The author of the beloved international hit The One Hundred Years of Lenni and Margot returns with a funny, uplifting story about the power of friendship and finding love in unexpected places.

Eddie Winston is 90 years old. He has lived and he has loved, but he has never been kissed.

A true gentleman and incurable romantic, Eddie spends his days volunteering at a charity shop, where he sorts through the donations of the living and the dead, preserving letters and tokens of love along the way. And it is here that he meets Bella, a troubled young woman who, at 24 years old, has just lost the love of her life.

When Bella learns that Eddie is yet to have his first kiss, she resolves to help Eddie Winston finally find love, sparking an adventure that will take them to unexpected places and, they hope, bring Eddie Winston to the moment he has waited for all his life.

A tale of friendship and kindness that reminds us that those we love are never forgotten and it is never too late to try again.

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    301 pages
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  4. Publication date
    December 31, 2024
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The One Hundred Years of Lenni and Margot
Eddie Winston Is Looking for Love
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About the Author

Marianne Cronin was born in 1990 and grew up in Warwickshire. After gaining her PhD in applied linguistics, she worked in academia until becoming a writer. Her first novel, The One Hundred Years of Lenni and Margot, published by Harper Perennial in 2021, was shortlisted for a Goodreads Choice Award for Fiction, and received the American Library Association Alex Award. She lives in the Midlands with her family and her cat.

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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B0CQ2RSJ2M
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Harper Perennial (December 31, 2024)
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ December 31, 2024
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 6.5 MB
  • Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
  • Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
  • Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 301 pages
  • Page numbers source ISBN ‏ : ‎ 0063383519
  • Customer Reviews:
    4.6 4.6 out of 5 stars 464 ratings

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Marianne Cronin is the author of 'The One Hundred Years of Lenni and Margot', which was voted 'Most Uplifting Book of 2021' by The Independent, won the American Libraries Association Alex Award, and was shortlisted for a Goodreads Choice award for fiction. It has been translated into over 25 languages.

Marianne's second novel, 'Eddie Winston is Looking for Love' will be released in 2024.

Marianne was born in 1990 and after gaining a PhD in Applied Linguistics from the University of Birmingham, worked in academia until becoming a writer. She lives in the Midlands of England with her family and her cat.

You can find Marianne on Instagram at: @itsmariannecronin

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Customers find the story charming and endearing. They enjoy it, describing it as a fun, loving read that puts a smile on their faces. The characters are well-developed and the visual style is beautiful. Readers praise the writing quality and narration.

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Customers enjoy the heartwarming story about love and friendship. They find it charming, with drama and soul. The book has wonderful characters and great situations. Readers appreciate the relationship between Eddie and Bella.

"...Bella and Eddie had a wonderful relationship. I also read ‘One Hundred years of Lenni & Margot’ but I feel this book was even better. Well done!" Read more

"...His friendship with Bella is unmatched and a beautiful representation that we can learn and grow from all people. I couldn't put this down...." Read more

"...This book includes both of these elements and has a redeeming storyline as well." Read more

"...Heart touching story about lost love, friendship and memories." Read more

10 customers mention "Enjoyment"10 positive0 negative

Customers enjoy the book. They find it delightful, charming, and heartwarming. The story has great characters and situations that make you laugh and cry. It has a redeeming storyline with drama and soul. Readers say it's good for book clubs.

"4.5 stars I enjoyed this book once it got started...." Read more

"I really enjoyed this book. The characters and storyline were believable and relatable. I couldn't put it down." Read more

"Delightful read! I love a clever turn of phrase as well as British understatement...." Read more

"Overall a great book. This is the story of Eddie and Birdie and Eddie and Bella. Eddie is a 90 year old man looking for his first kiss...." Read more

10 customers mention "Heartwarming"10 positive0 negative

Customers enjoy the heartwarming and charming story. They find it endearing, funny, and a fun read that puts a smile on their faces. The book brings hope and opens them to beauty and love.

"...These heartbreakingly lonely people just kept going, and opened themselves to beauty and love." Read more

"...The friendship that he had with Bella was heart warming, the friendship that they both needed without really needing it...." Read more

"...Such a well written, quirky, fun loving story. Bella and Eddie had a wonderful relationship...." Read more

"...I highly recommend this book. Good clean fun." Read more

6 customers mention "Character development"6 positive0 negative

Customers enjoy the book's characters and situations.

"I love the quirky wonderful characters and the beautiful imagery. The writing was perfect...." Read more

"I really enjoyed this book. The characters and storyline were believable and relatable. I couldn't put it down." Read more

"...A loveable character that anyone would want for a friend. Enter Bella who has lost a loved one and she is drawn to Eddie...." Read more

"...Eddie was a very interesting character that was waiting on his first kiss. Which he finally got at the end of the book." Read more

3 customers mention "Visual style"3 positive0 negative

Customers find the visual style appealing. They describe Bella as a beautiful representation that they can learn from and grow from.

"I love the quirky wonderful characters and the beautiful imagery. The writing was perfect...." Read more

"...His friendship with Bella is unmatched and a beautiful representation that we can learn and grow from all people. I couldn't put this down...." Read more

"Eddie Winston will warm your heart and soul! It is delightful, charming, and endearing! I won’t forget this book anytime soon!" Read more

3 customers mention "Writing quality"3 positive0 negative

Customers enjoy the writing quality. They find the story well-written and the narrators did a good job.

"...The writing was perfect. These heartbreakingly lonely people just kept going, and opened themselves to beauty and love." Read more

"...Such a well written, quirky, fun loving story. Bella and Eddie had a wonderful relationship...." Read more

"...Great story and great job by the narrators. Give me another one!" Read more

A charming novel of love and friendship
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A charming novel of love and friendship
Eddie Winston is Looking for Love is an absolutely charming novel of love and friendship. It’s also about grief and discovering it’s never too late for a happy ending. The novel features 90-year old Eddie and 24-year old Bella, who form an unlikely friendship. They team up to ease Bella’s grief after losing the love of her life, and to help Eddie find his one true love, lost to circumstances 60 years earlier. The story is told in dual time lines from Eddie’s university days in the 1960s to the present time. Eddie is sweet and funny, and I absolutely loved watching his fashion evolution. I laughed and teared up at times, and thoroughly enjoyed this heart warming story. Highly, highly recommended! 5/5⭐️
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  • A Borghese
    5.0 out of 5 stars Wonderful story
    Reviewed in the United States on February 25, 2025
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    I love the quirky wonderful characters and the beautiful imagery. The writing was perfect. These heartbreakingly lonely people just kept going, and opened themselves to beauty and love.
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  • Lindsay Seigel
    4.0 out of 5 stars Will Eddie Find His Only Love?
    Reviewed in the United States on January 23, 2025
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    4.5 stars
    I enjoyed this book once it got started. It took me a minute to get into it, especially with the back-n-forth POVs between different times. Then I got invested in Eddie's story and really started to hope he would find his Bridie again, cried when I thought he was so close and missed his chance and then again when he finally did. The friendship that he had with Bella was heart warming, the friendship that they both needed without really needing it. Bella kept Eddie young and Eddie kept Bella alive.
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  • Kibbutz
    5.0 out of 5 stars Outstanding!
    Reviewed in the United States on February 23, 2025
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    I absolutely loved this book. I found myself smiling or laughing each time I picked it up to read. Such a well written, quirky, fun loving story. Bella and Eddie had a wonderful relationship. I also read ‘One Hundred years of Lenni & Margot’ but I feel this book was even better. Well done!
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  • Amazon Customer
    5.0 out of 5 stars All the stars
    Reviewed in the United States on January 5, 2025
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    “I sort through the donations made by the living and the dead and I put a price tag on the souvenirs of someone else’s life”.
    The most heartwarming story about love and friendship.

    Eddie is 90 years old and he's never been kissed. He spends his days volunteering at a thrift store where he sorts through all of the incoming donations (and keeps things he feels like will be missed). At the thrift store, he meets Bella. Bella just tragically lost her boyfriend. The two of them develop an uncommon friendship (with Eddie's guinea pig, Pushkin) and both find answers they're looking for.

    First off, we know how much I love an older MC (Ove, Frederick Fife), and now Eddie has been added to that list. His friendship with Bella is unmatched and a beautiful representation that we can learn and grow from all people. I couldn't put this down. I loved Lennie & Margot, but I might love Bella & Eddie more.

    Thank you NetGalley and Harper Perennial for the ARC!!!
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  • Amazon Customer
    5.0 out of 5 stars Fun read. Highly recommend this author.
    Reviewed in the United States on February 26, 2025
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    I really enjoyed this book. The characters and storyline were believable and relatable. I couldn't put it down.
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  • Sandra Fielder
    4.0 out of 5 stars Never Been Kissed
    Reviewed in the United States on February 9, 2025
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    From the start you feel terrible for Eddie. He is 90+ years and he has never been kissed. In the 1960’s he had a crush on another professor’s wife. Her name was Bridie, short for Bridget. He calls her Birdie, confused with her name. Throughout his life she holds a special place in his heart.
    Eddie works at a resale shop. When people bring in precious possessions that he knows they will eventually want, he saves them.
    Bella, a twenty something young lady brings in her boyfriend’s letters and his hand decorated shoes. He keeps them. He and Bella become great friends.
    Eddie continues to look for someone to kiss him. He has unsuccessful attempts.
    He is not discouraged. He continues to look.
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  • Carol Jones
    5.0 out of 5 stars Good for Book Club
    Reviewed in the United States on February 8, 2025
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    Delightful read! I love a clever turn of phrase as well as British understatement. This book includes both of these elements and has a redeeming storyline as well.
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  • Whatsername
    3.0 out of 5 stars Tiny Print
    Reviewed in the United States on March 3, 2025
    Seemed like it might be a good story and I tried to read the paperback version, but the print is so small, I gave up and had to return it.
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  • Ferri81
    5.0 out of 5 stars Lovely book
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on January 10, 2025
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    I don’t often give 5 star ratings (or review!) but I love this author. I have read both her books Eddie Winston being her second and I highly recommend them. Lovely reads. Just read them you won’t be disappointed.
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  • Booklion
    5.0 out of 5 stars Heartwarming beautiful story
    Reviewed in Australia on September 16, 2024
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    This was such a beautiful and moving story. Such a mix of love, of longing and of the immense power of friendship. Eddie and Bella’s relationship is particularly powerful as they help each other move forward In very different ways. Finally, at 90 years old Eddie is going to have his first kiss and is helped to undertake this mission, by his young friend Bella. With flashbacks to a long ago past and the promise of future joy this is an emotional rollercoaster with great rewards to the reader.
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  • Vespa
    4.0 out of 5 stars A Heartwarming Story! Must Read!
    Reviewed in Canada on January 4, 2025
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    I knew this book would be just as touching as the author’s first book (The 100 Years of Lenni and Margot)

    Eddie Winston is a 90 year old man who has the kindest heart. He has loved and lost many years ago and though he has lived a full life, he has yet to be kissed.
    Eddie works in a used charity shop where he sorts donations of the living and the deceased. Eddie likes to preserve some of these tokens of love.
    Upon meeting a young woman named Bella who is grieving the loss of her partner the two strike up a friendship and soon Bella is on a mission to help Eddie find love. During their adventures they learn more about the power of courage, friendship, hope.

    Eddie Winston is the type of character I’d want as a friend. You can’t help but adore him. I love his personal story behind the story.
    Bella is the comic relief and has a true heart.
    I was hoping the end had another chapter but it didn’t really need it to complete the story.

    I highly recommend the book. You won’t be disappointed. I couldn’t put it down!
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  • Elissa W.
    5.0 out of 5 stars Simply beautiful
    Reviewed in Australia on September 13, 2024
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    Marianne Cronin just gets better with this book. If she’s this good on only her second novel, I can’t wait to see what book 3, 4 or 10 is like!
    What a wonderful, life-affirming story. It made me laugh, smile, cry & sigh. I loved each of the characters equally. I couldn’t finish it fast enough to recommend to my book-reading bestie. Off you go, read it now 🩷
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  • clodagh carey
    5.0 out of 5 stars Lot of heart
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on January 25, 2025
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    Has so much heart!
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