Jeanne Ray

Feeling unattractive and unappreciated as she enters her 50s, wife and mother Clover wakes up one morning and discovers that she has actually become invisible, a condition that goes unnoticed by her family. By the best-selling author of Julie and Romeo. 40,000 first printing.

A Novel

Calling Invisible Women

Julie Roseman and Romeo Cacciamani had been born to rival florist families in Boston, but it is love at first sight when they spot each other across a crowded lobby. A first novel. Reprint.

Julie and Romeo

a novel

Ruth draws on her talent for concocting delectable cakes and desserts when her family begins to disintegrate around her--her husband loses his job, her mother moves in, and her long-estranged father shows up at the door with no place to go.

Eat Cake

Julie and Romeo had been born to rival florist families in Boston, but it is love at first sight when they spot each other across a crowded lobby. A first novel. 75,000 first printing.

Julie Y Romeo

Club der unsichtbaren Frauen

Ruth loves to bake cakes. When she is alone, she dreams up variations on recipes. When she meditates, she imagines herself in the warm, comforting center of a gigantic bundt cake. If there is a crisis, she bakes a cake; if there is a reason to celebrate, she bakes a cake. Ruth sees it as an outward manifestation of an inner need to nurture her family—which is a good thing, because all of a sudden that family is rapidly expanding. First, her mother moves in after robbers kick in her front door in broad daylight. Then Ruth’s father, a lounge singer, who she’s seen only occasionally throughout her life, shatters both wrists and, having nowhere else to go, moves in, too. Her mother and father just happen to hate each other with a deep and poisonous emotion reserved only for life-long enemies. Oh, yes indeed! Add to this mix two teenagers, a gainfully employed husband who is suddenly without a job, and a physical therapist with the instincts of a Cheryl Richardson and you’ve got a delightful and amusing concoction that comes with its own delicious icing. One of Jeanne Ray’s specialties is giving us believable, totally likable characters, engaged in the large and small dramas and amusements of life. Eat Cake is whimsical, warm, and satisfying. Eat Cake is Jeanne Ray at her best. Pull up a chair and eat cake!

Wer nicht sehen will, muss fühlen An Clover Hobart ist rein gar nichts außergewöhnlich: Sie ist mit einem netten Mann verheiratet, hat für die Erziehung ihrer inzwischen erwachsenen Kinder ihren Job aufgegeben und liebt ihren Garten – eben völlig normal. Umso erschrockener ist sie, als sie eines Morgens in den Badezimmerspiegel blickt und außer der Zahnbürste, die in der Luft schwebt – nichts sieht. Gar nichts! Sie ist unsichtbar! Gut, dieser Zustand hat durchaus auch seine Vorteile – allein das viele Geld für Eintrittskarten und Tickets, das man sich sparen kann. Aber auf die Dauer? Zum Glück stößt Clover in der Zeitung, bei der sie früher als Reporterin gearbeitet hat, auf eine Anzeige des «Clubs der unsichtbaren Frauen». Es gibt also noch andere, denen es genauso geht! Natürlich kann sie die Sache nicht einfach auf sich beruhen lassen, schließlich schlägt in ihr auch nach den Jahren des Hausfrauendaseins das Herz einer investigativen Journalistin. Doch was sie und ihre neuen Freundinnen herausfinden, ist einfach unglaublich und führt sie auf die Spur einer weltumspannenden Verschwörung ...

Julie Roseman and Romeo Cacciamani know a thing or two about good fortune. For generations, their families were rival florists and bitter enemies. Then Julie and Romeo met by chance, just as each became single again. Even more miraculous, they fell in love. Three years later, Julie and Romeo are still blissfully happy. They don't often get a quiet moment alone, and rarely manage a night -- quiet or otherwise -- in the same bed, but Julie feels blessed by what they do have: true love, wonderful jobs, and houses packed to the rafters with family. Romeo's ninety-three-year-old mother, his son Alan, Alan's wife and their three children live with him; Julie's daughter Sandy and her family -- including Sandy's Willy Wonka-obsessed daughter, Sarah, and their cat -- live with her. The odds of Julie and Romeo getting a few days of peace together seem about as likely as winning the lottery. But their wish comes true -- with a twist -- when an injury puts Romeo flat on his back in Julie's room. Spending days in bed may sound heavenly, but with Romeo on pain pills, initially as comatose as Juliet in her tomb, the reality is less romantic. Then Julie's other daughter, Nora, drops her own crisis on her mother's doorstep. Now Julie has to figure out how to run two flower shops, take care of an ever-expanding household, nurse her beloved Romeo back to health, tackle Sarah's fixation with lottery tickets, and keep her daughters from regressing into full-scale teenage bickering. And Lady Luck has one more surprise in store.... Wonderfully witty and unerringly wise, Julie and Romeo Get Lucky is a smart, heartwarming story of timeless love and family loyalty, and a reminder that if you suddenly get everything you ever wished for, the only thing to do is live happily ever after.

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