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Gillyflower
A Novel
Diane Wald
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Boston, 1984. Even in a world without cell phones, messages come through loud and clear if one is listening. When thirty-something Nora Forrest travels to Manhattan to see a Broadway play starring her idol, an aging Irish actor named Hugh Sheenan, she doesn’t know whether what happens in the theater that night should be credited to witchcraft, extrasensory perception, synchronicity, or simple accident—and she knows that many people would tell her nothing had happened at all.
Told through the voices of four people,
Gillyflower is a story about intersections and connections—real, imaginary, seized, and eluded. It’s a book about everyday magic, crystalline memory, and the details that flow through time and space like an electrified mist. It’s a detective story, a love story, and a coming-of-age story—for the never really young and for the almost old.
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Favorite</i> “The story has a lot to say about revering celebrities and enduring love. It’s up to the reader to decide what to think about the encounter between Nora and Hugh, and what it might mean.” —
<i>San Francisco Book Review</i> “. . . Diane Wald’s meditative literary novel
<i>Gillyflower</i> is an experiment in restraint. . . a delicate character study in which a single shared look impacts several lives—a psychological drama with an otherworldly atmosphere. Its introspective passages, images and omens, and subtle characterizations suit this work, and the finale is subdued and potent.” —
<i>Foreword Reviews</i>
<b>2020 International Book Awards Winner in Fiction: Novella 2020 Independent Press Award Winner in Paranormal Romance 2019 Best Book Awards Winner in Fiction (Novella) 2019 Readers' Favorite Awards Bronze Medal Winner in Fiction (Visionary) 2019 Next Generation Indie Book Awards: Winner in Novella</b> “Haunting and exquisite, Diane Wald explores beauty, desire, and dreams in her gorgeously written <i>Gillyflower</i>. Dreamy artist Nora and fading theatrical star Hugh share an electrifying moment when she is in the front row of one of his performances. She sends him a drawing of that moment. Captivated by it, disturbed by it, he is determined to dissect why that moment had such an effect. Beautiful writing supports rich characters who don’t take the easy way out.” —Next Generation Indie Book Awards Judge “...An intelligent and sensitive exploration of the ineffable power of connection and coincidence...Wald’s elegant and graceful prose begs to be savored...A haunting meditation on lives that intersect in unexpected ways.” — <i>Kirkus Reviews</i> “Diane Wald is a magician. This wondrous novel about dreams that come true is by turns charming and alarming and utterly disarming. Brace yourself. You are about to witness a breathtaking sleight of heart.” —Michael Downing, best-selling author of <i>Perfect Agreement</i> and <i>Breakfast with Scot</i> “In lush language, at an unhurried pace, Diane Wald beautifully observes the prelude and progression of a mysterious love begun in a shared dream.” —Ellen Wittlinger, author of <i>Hard Love</i>, a Lambda Literary Award prize winner and Printz Honor Book, and many other novels “In Diane Wald’s lyrical and deeply compelling novel <i>Gillyflower</i>, she expertly explores the mystic telepathy exchanged between two total strangers thrown together in that comedy of errors we call love. In this insightful and finely tuned story, she asks, ‘What is the mysterious alchemy that converts the fool’s gold of a romantic crush into the molten bullion of passion?’ Wald expresses the inexpressible role played by clairvoyance, imagination, delusion, and self-fulfilling prophecy in our lives. Like the story’s bemused protagonist, you’ll finish this riveting story by concluding that ‘I never did get past the wonder of it!’” —Charles Creekmore, author of <i>Back to Walden: How Thoreau Can Change Your Life Today</i> “What sets this quixotic love story apart from other tales of obsession is the sly way it reveals not only the intrigues of the lovers’ relationship but also the mysteries of the relationships that surround them. <i>Gillyflower’s</i> beauty lies in showing us that even the rarest, most obscure love never grows in isolation; it exists, like all of us, in connection to other living things.” —Jennifer Tseng, award-winning author of <i>The Passion of Woo and Isolde</i> and <i>Mayumi and the Sea of Happiness</i> “ <i>Gillyflower</i> is an intriguing, romantic, mysterious tale ... [t]he perfect combination of suspense, romance, mysticism, and fantasy...Gillyflower starts off strong and stays that way the entire way through, making it the kind of easy-to-read, well-paced story you won’t soon forget.” — <i>Readers'
<b>2020 International Book Awards Winner in Fiction: Novella 2020 Independent Press Award Winner in Paranormal Romance 2019 Best Book Awards Winner in Fiction (Novella) 2019 Readers' Favorite Awards Bronze Medal Winner in Fiction (Visionary) 2019 Next Generation Indie Book Awards: Winner in Novella</b> “Haunting and exquisite, Diane Wald explores beauty, desire, and dreams in her gorgeously written <i>Gillyflower</i>. Dreamy artist Nora and fading theatrical star Hugh share an electrifying moment when she is in the front row of one of his performances. She sends him a drawing of that moment. Captivated by it, disturbed by it, he is determined to dissect why that moment had such an effect. Beautiful writing supports rich characters who don’t take the easy way out.” —Next Generation Indie Book Awards Judge “...An intelligent and sensitive exploration of the ineffable power of connection and coincidence...Wald’s elegant and graceful prose begs to be savored...A haunting meditation on lives that intersect in unexpected ways.” — <i>Kirkus Reviews</i> “Diane Wald is a magician. This wondrous novel about dreams that come true is by turns charming and alarming and utterly disarming. Brace yourself. You are about to witness a breathtaking sleight of heart.” —Michael Downing, best-selling author of <i>Perfect Agreement</i> and <i>Breakfast with Scot</i> “In lush language, at an unhurried pace, Diane Wald beautifully observes the prelude and progression of a mysterious love begun in a shared dream.” —Ellen Wittlinger, author of <i>Hard Love</i>, a Lambda Literary Award prize winner and Printz Honor Book, and many other novels “In Diane Wald’s lyrical and deeply compelling novel <i>Gillyflower</i>, she expertly explores the mystic telepathy exchanged between two total strangers thrown together in that comedy of errors we call love. In this insightful and finely tuned story, she asks, ‘What is the mysterious alchemy that converts the fool’s gold of a romantic crush into the molten bullion of passion?’ Wald expresses the inexpressible role played by clairvoyance, imagination, delusion, and self-fulfilling prophecy in our lives. Like the story’s bemused protagonist, you’ll finish this riveting story by concluding that ‘I never did get past the wonder of it!’” —Charles Creekmore, author of <i>Back to Walden: How Thoreau Can Change Your Life Today</i> “What sets this quixotic love story apart from other tales of obsession is the sly way it reveals not only the intrigues of the lovers’ relationship but also the mysteries of the relationships that surround them. <i>Gillyflower’s</i> beauty lies in showing us that even the rarest, most obscure love never grows in isolation; it exists, like all of us, in connection to other living things.” —Jennifer Tseng, award-winning author of <i>The Passion of Woo and Isolde</i> and <i>Mayumi and the Sea of Happiness</i> “ <i>Gillyflower</i> is an intriguing, romantic, mysterious tale ... [t]he perfect combination of suspense, romance, mysticism, and fantasy...Gillyflower starts off strong and stays that way the entire way through, making it the kind of easy-to-read, well-paced story you won’t soon forget.” — <i>Readers'
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Boston fiction, May/December romance, aging actor, strong female lead, celebrity crush, young woman artist, Broadway actor, Irish film star, young married woman, psychological fiction