Join Suzanne Allain to talk about “The Ladies Rewrite the Rules.”
AUTHOR TALK DETAILS
2/4/2024 at 3pm
HEARTH AND SOUL LLC
1410 MARKET ST STE D1
TALLAHASSEE, FL 32312-1722
About the Author:
I was born in India and sent to boarding school in England but my father lost his fortune . . . Oh, wait, that’s the plot of “The Little Princess”. I actually grew up in Tallahassee, Florida, a world away from romantic locales like India or Edwardian England. But I could escape to those places in the pages of a book and I frequently did. When I wasn’t reading I was inventing witty repartee for my Barbie and Ken dolls while smashing their faces together and making smooching noises.
I also loved period movies and musicals. I memorized the lyrics to every song from MY FAIR LADY and would sneak into my parents’ room at night and sing: “Just you wait, ’enry ’iggins, just you wait!” They would toss pillows at me but I knew they were totally into it. My writing is influenced by those classic, romantic films as well as the novels of Jane Austen and Georgette Heyer. My goal is to make readers of my books smile and, even better, laugh.
The feature film MR. MALCOLM’S LIST, based on my novel of the same name, was released in 2022 and stars Freida Pinto, Theo James, ??p? Dìrísù, Zawe Ashton and Oliver Jackson-Cohen. It is available to stream on any video-on-demand site, including this one.
About the Book:
From the author of Mr. Malcolm’s List comes a delightful romantic comedy set in Regency England about a widow who takes high society by storm.
Diana Boyle, a wealthy young widow, has no desire to ever marry again. Particularly not to someone who merely wants her for her fortune.
So when she discovers that she’s listed in a directory of rich, single women she is furious, and rightly so. She confronts Maxwell Dean, the man who published the Bachelor’s Directory, and is horrified to find he is far more attractive than his actions have led her to expect. However, Diana is unmoved by Max’s explanation that he authored the list to assist younger sons like himself who cannot afford to marry unless it’s to a woman of means.
She gathers the ladies in the directory together to inform them of its existence, so they may circumvent fortune hunters’ efforts to trick them into marriage. Though outraged, the women decide to embrace their unique position of power and reverse the usual gender roles by making the men dance to their tune. And together…the ladies rewrite the rules.
