The Pajama Girls of Lambert Square by Rosina Lippi

Description

Bibliographic Details

• Author: Rosina Lippi
• Title: The Pajama Girls of Lambert Square
• Publisher: ‎ G. P. Putnam's Sons; First Edition (February 14, 2008)
• Language: ‎ English
• Format: Hardcover w/Library Binding – 351 pages
• ISBN-10: ‎ 0399154663
• ISBN-13: ‎ 978-0399154669
• Reading age: ‎ 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher
• Item Weight: ‎ 1.30 pounds
• Dimensions: ‎ 6.3 x 1.3 x 9.5 inches
• Book Condition: Used – Good (Former library book; may include the markings and stickers associated from the library. Shows signs of minor discoloration on page edges). 
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good (Mylar Library Dust Jacket)
• Edition: First Edition

Synopsis:

From the author of Tied to the Tracks comes a charming new novel set in Lambert's Corner, South Carolina-a beautiful town where no one's secrets remain secret for very long.

For John Dodge, moving to new places and reviving ailing businesses is a way of life. So when he sees an ad for Scriveners, a stationery shop in a small town in South Carolina, he decides to take the plunge.

As soon as he arrives in Lambert's Corner, Dodge falls happily into the whirl of gossip, gifts, and quintessential Southern hospitality. Link Kay, one of his employees, warms up to him after Dodge admires his expertise on pens. Bean Hurt- a feisty and outspoken ten-year-old-becomes a fast friend. And Maude Golden, the mayor, supplies him with indispensable information. But the one person who really catches Dodge's eye is Julia Darrow-the beautiful but aloof pajama- wearing owner of the Cocoon, a popular store specializing in luxury linens. Dodge tries to befriend her, but she remains elusive and mysterious. Everyone knows that she is a widow, but no one seems to know why she came to town or why she never leaves Lambert Square-or does she?

Like Dodge, Chicago-born Julia is fleeing a tumultuous past. But with the help of a hilarious and endearing cast of characters, Julia and Dodge learn that, sometimes, you don't need to go far to find home.

About the Author: Rosina Lippi

I have a small, quiet life and a big, active imagination.

In 2000 I left academia and I've been writing full time ever since. I have three publishing personas: the Rosina Lippi who wrote Homestead, Tied to the Tracks, and The Pajama Girls of Lambert Square; Rosina Lippi-Green who has a lot of academic publications to her credit; and probably best known, Sara Donati. Sara is responsible for what is generally referred to as The Wilderness Novels, a six volume series of historicals set on the New-York frontier between 1792 and 1824. Sara's most recent novel is The Gilded Hour, set in Manhattan in 1883, published 2015.

While historical fiction is my first and abiding love, I also really like writing contemporary novels, though they don't fit into any particular genre and thereby stump the marketing and advertising people. Laura Vivanco of Teach Me Tonight has called the two set in the contemporary South "contemporary romantic emotional-mystery fiction." Rosina-the-former-academic likes all the syllables. The other Rosina bristles at the need for genre labels.

I was born and raised in Chicago and am now settled down with the Mathematician in the Pacific Northwest, on a hillside between the San Juan Islands and the Cascade Mountains. When I'm not writing or trying to write I am reading, keeping up with reader mail and messages on social media, working on mixed media art projects or doing dog things with Jimmy Dean, a Havanese and/or the occasional foster pup.