Jenn is a home organizer in her fifties. Divorced for many years, she dutifully goes on first dates but seldom makes it to a second date. There\u2019s always something\u2014sometimes several somethings\u2014about the men that just doesn\u2019t appeal. When widower Mark\u2019s grown daughters hire her to organize their dad\u2019s home\u2014including dealing with their late mom\u2019s accumulation of stuff\u2014Jenn sees something in Mark that was missing in the other men.
Pickled in Love\u2014the title is a reference to Jenn and Mark taking up pickleball together\u2014follows the classic traditions of romantic comedy novels. But because Gina N. Brown approaches the
genre with deft writing, humour that is often sly but never mean, insightfulness, and likeable
main characters, the novel has a freshness that completely avoids tired tropes. The reader will have no trouble rooting for the characters and feeling compassion for the obstacles they face in committing to love.
This is Brown\u2019s third novel, and it\u2019s her best one yet. Her plotting, character development,
and writing\u2014and Jenn and Mark themselves\u2014make this a charming book to curl up with on
a chilly winter weekend.
Beth Wilson is a compulsive reader and veteran of many post-divorce first dates.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
By Gina N. Brown Jenn is a home organizer in her fifties. Divorced for many years, she dutifully goes on first dates but seldom makes it to a second date. There\u2019s always something\u2014sometimes several somethings\u2014about the men that just doesn\u2019t appeal. When widower Mark\u2019s grown daughters hire her to organize their dad\u2019s home\u2014including dealing with their late mom\u2019s accumulation […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1004170,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[334],"tags":[37,455],"class_list":["post-1004169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-what-we-are-reading","tag-books","tag-reeading"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/themastheadnews.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1004169","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/themastheadnews.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/themastheadnews.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themastheadnews.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themastheadnews.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1004169"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/themastheadnews.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1004169\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1004171,"href":"https:\/\/themastheadnews.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1004169\/revisions\/1004171"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themastheadnews.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1004170"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/themastheadnews.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1004169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themastheadnews.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1004169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themastheadnews.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1004169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
Reviewed by Beth Wilson
Paperback, $21.95
Available from local booksellers and online<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"