02189cam a2200313 i 4500 296073136 TxAuBib 20140716120000.0 140402s2014||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2014937378 9780316099752 0316099759 VTL eng rda VTL VTL BTCTA YDXCP BDX WIM AZZPT UPZ OCLCO JP3 ZS3 OCLCO IP6 DLC TxAuBib rda Hilderbrand, Elin, 1969- The matchmaker [BOOK] : a novel / Elin Hilderbrand. First edition. New York : Little, Brown and Company, 2014. 360 pages ; 25 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier "48-year-old Nantucketer Dabney Kimball Beech has always had a gift for matchmaking. Some call her ability mystical, while others - like her husband, celebrated economist John Boxmiller Beech, and her daughter, Agnes, who is clearly engaged to the wrong man - call it meddlesome, but there's no arguing with her results: With 42 happy couples to her credit and all of them still together, Dabney has never been wrong about romance. Never, that is, except in the case of herself and Clendenin Hughes, the green-eyed boy who took her heart with him long ago when he left the island to pursue his dream of becoming a journalist. Now, after spending 27 years on the other side of the world, Clen is back on Nantucket, and Dabney has never felt so confused, or so alive. But when tragedy threatens her own second chance, Dabney must face the choices she's made and share painful secrets with her family. Determined to make use of her gift before it's too late, she sets out to find perfect matches for those she loves most. The Matchmaker is a heartbreaking story about losing and finding love, even as you're running out of time" - from publisher's web site. 20140716. Middle-aged women Fiction. Married women Fiction. Mate selection Fiction. Nantucket Island (Mass) Fiction. Domestic fiction.