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FALLING FOR PRINCE CHARLES
Lauren
Baratz-Logsted
Baratz-Logsted
Releasing on February 9, 2016
Diversion Books
Daisy Silverman has always been obsessed with His Royal Highness, Prince Charles. When the underachieving 30-something cleaning lady wins a million dollars, she follows her lifelong dream to go to London. Once there, she meets Prince Charles—the real Prince Charles. Through a series of misunderstandings, the Royal Family doesn't realize that Daisy's Jewish or that she's spent her life up to the elbows in the wrong kind of toilet water. By the time they do, Daisy is in love with Charles, Charles is in love with Daisy, and the Queen's white gloves are off.
FALLING FOR PRINCE CHARLES is an offbeat alternate-universe romantic comedy showing the heir to the British throne in a light quite unlike any he's been seen in before.
"Daisy's madcap adventure is more comedy than romance, and her most unusual and unlikely relationship with Prince Charles will appeal to reads looking for lots of giggles." —Publishers
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"Lauren Baratz-Logsted has mastered the real life fairy tale in her explosive and hilarious FALLING FOR PRINCE CHARLES. It's all here, lovelorn Daisy Silverman flush with cash and high hopes, Prince Charles who can't resist her, and London in all its splendor. Curl up and get ready to
laugh long into the foggy night." —Adriana Trigiani, New York Times bestselling author of THE SHOEMAKER'S WIFE
laugh long into the foggy night." —Adriana Trigiani, New York Times bestselling author of THE SHOEMAKER'S WIFE
As Daisy Silverman squatted in front
of the toilet bowl, first depressing the flush lever and then
watching as the milky outgoing spiral removed the mildew and replaced
it with fresh water, the thought occurred to her for at least the
thousandth time that if the fickle hand of fate hadn’t cast her as
a cleaning lady, working in wealthy households and offices in
Westport, Connecticut, she would most certainly have made a perfectly
lovely Princess of Wales.
This was a fantasy that Daisy had
entertained off and on since 1981, the same year that the late
Princess Diana had first become Princess Diana. And to this day,
eighteen years later, whenever she thought about it, Daisy still
thought that she could have done the job better.
Oh, sure, Daisy had loved the late
Princess, would have said that she loved her more than anybody. Well,
actually even Daisy was aware enough not to say that; she did know
that Diana’s family and friends had surely loved her more. But
Daisy could legitimately claim to love her easily as much as anybody
who had never met her, and that was plenty. So, if Daisy felt a
little competitive with a dead Princess that she had loved beyond
reason, what matter that? After all, there were some compelling
reasons for making a comparison between the two women.
Just like the woman who had
possessed the most photographed profile in the world, Daisy had a
genius for making the kind of seemingly interested, throwaway comment
that left others feeling a little cheerier about their own lot in
life. Although even Daisy had felt that the Princess had been pushing
things a bit, several years back, when she had blithely informed a
widow on the dole with a flat full of small children: “Oh, yes, I
just love those microwave pizzas too. Whenever the Heir and the Spare
start to look a little peaked, I just nuke a couple of them in the
Palace micro, and we’re all set to go skiing in Klosters or
windsurfing on Necker.” Or, if those hadn’t been her exact words,
it had been something equally inappropriate...
Lauren Baratz-Logsted is the author of over 25 books for adults, teens (including The Twin’s Daughter and Little Women and Me), and children (The Sisters 8, a nine-book series she created with her husband and daughter). Before becoming an author, Lauren was an independent bookseller, freelance editor, Publishers Weekly reviewer, sort-of librarian and window washer. She lives with her family in Danbury, CT. Visit her at www.laurenbaratzlogsted.com or follow her @LaurenBaratzL on Twitter.
