CATCH OF THE DAY

Winner, 2008 RITA Award, Romance Writers of America

 1/2 and Top Pick
Romantic Times

“Higgins has crafted a touching story brimming with smart dialogue, sympathetic characters, an engaging narrative and the amusing, often self-deprecating observations of the heroine. It's a novel with depth and a great deal of heart.”
— Marilyn Weigel

BOOKLIST
Maggie’s misadventures have entertained the gossips of Gideon’s Cove for years, but at 32 she’s getting frustrated with her lack of marital prospects. Accordingly, she embarks on a determined campaign, aided by the new priest in town, who is embarrassed by the crush she has developed on him, and by the members of her family, including her identical twin sister, who are only too eager to see her happily married. Fans of Janet Chapman’s and Marcia Evanick’s Maine-set contemporary romances featuring working-class people with complex lives and family issues will find many of the same elements in Higgins’ second romantic comedy, starring a protagonist narrator who is a charmingly muddled, good-hearted, but impulsive and outspoken woman wanting desperately to settle down with Mr. Right. But since he is nowhere to be seen, she lavishes her attention on good works, her restaurant, her family, and her faithful golden retriever, while ignoring the one man who may just be her perfect match.
— Lynne Welch

NOVELIST
Kristan Higgins writes about the Far North coast of Maine and the rugged but caring people who inhabit it in such a way that I feel I'm there. Catch of the Day is the emotional, wryly self-deprecating first-person narrative of a woman who sees others — including her perfect twin sister — finding love and building families of their own, and wants the same for herself. Unfortunately, Maggie's life never seems to go smoothly — especially where men are involved. In fact, she's pretty much clueless, but she's also very likeable and good-hearted, always volunteering around town to fill her empty hours when she's not hard at work in the diner she took over from her grandfather. She's also engagingly upfront about her motives, and some of the blind dates she recounts are just hilarious. Of course, her perfect match is right in front of her nose all the while, and half the fun for the reader is spotting him before Maggie does and cheering him on as he bumbles his own way through their courtship.
— Lynne Welch, NoveList, 12/2007

 
Catch of the Day had me grinning from ear to ear, crying, and enjoying Maggie's adventures in dating and life. Don't miss out, pick up this book today!