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Guests of Chance
Contributor(s): Curran, Colleen (Author)
ISBN: 0864924380     ISBN-13: 9780864924384
Publisher: Goose Lane Editions
OUR PRICE:   $20.66  
Product Type: Hardcover
Published: October 2005
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Temporarily out of stock - Will ship within 2 to 5 weeks
Annotation: Two best friends embark on a laugh-filled romp through the English countryside. Akin to Bridget Jones's Diary and My Big Fat Greek Wedding, you'll fall in love with the heroin!
Additional Information
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Humorous - General
- Fiction | Literary
Dewey: FIC
Physical Information: 0.99" H x 6.12" W x 8.36" (1.12 lbs) 298 pages
Themes:
- Cultural Region - British Isles
- Cultural Region - Canadian
- Sex & Gender - Feminine
- Topical - Friendship
 
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Publisher Description:

Colleen Curran returns with her latest novel, Guests of Chance, completing the hilarious trilogy that has taken readers through break-ups, make-ups, fierce friendships, a trip to Hollywood and everything in between.

Starring Lenore Rutland, an unsophisticated but astute former singing waitress who owns a theme restaurant in Montreal, Guests of Chance is proof that life can be an adventure. The new novel picks up where Curran left off in Overnight Sensation.

Without skipping a beat, our heroine finds herself nervously flying away from her beloved Montreal to England, all the while reflecting on her "star turn" at the Oscars. She has left behind her beloved partner Beno t and her collection of unique friends: Madame Ducharme, who is doing time for poisoning six of her fellow jurors when they let a murderer go free; heartbroken Viola, whose lesbian lover has left for Toronto with her much younger, slimmer and more glamorous new love interest; Heidi's fireman brother Daniel, who hasn't told their parents that he's gay; Elspeth and her odious husband; and Madame's spoiled lap dogs, Montcalm and Brioche. Lenore's best friend Heidi, a professor of English, has persuaded Lenore to come to England with her for moral support as she tries to discover whether her handsome pen-pal "boyfriend" is the real deal.

Akin to Bridget Jones's Diary and My Big Fat Greek Wedding, Guests of Chance is a laugh-filled romp with two inexperienced thirty-something travellers, enchanting new readers and making those who met Lenore in Something Drastic and Overnight Sensation fall in love with her all over again.


Contributor Bio(s): Curran, Colleen: - A former playwright-in-residence at Montreal's Centaur Theatre, Colleen Curran is now co-artistic director of the Triumvirate Theatre Company in Montreal.