Beginner’s Luck: A Novel-Fast Shipping

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“Laura Pedersen delivers . . . Throughout, you can’t help but think how hilarious some of the scenes would play on the big screen.”—The Hartford Courant

“There could be no doubt left in anyone’s mind that my life had all the makings ofa country-and-western song.”

The second of seven children (with another on theway), Hallie Palmer has one dream: to make it to Vegas. Normally blessed with anuncanny gift for winning at games of chance, she’s just hit a losing streak. She’ s been kicked out of the casino she frequents during school hours, lost all her moneyfor a car on a bad bet at the track, and has been grounded by her parents. Halliedecides the time as come to cut her losses.

Answering an ad in the local paper,she lands a job as yard person at the elegant home of the sixty-ish Mrs. Olivia Stockton,a wonderfully eccentric rebel who scribes acclaimed poetry along with the occasionalsoft-core porn story. Under the same wild roof is Olivia’s son, Bernard, an antiquesdealer and gourmet cook who turns out mouthwatering cuisine and scathing witticisms,and Gil, Bernard’s lover, whose down-to-earth sensibilities provide a perfect foilto the Stocktons’ outrageous joie de vivre. Here, in this anything-goes household,Hallie has found a new family. And she’s about to receive the education of her life.

From a wonderful new voice in fiction comes the freshest and funniest novel to barreldown the pike since Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Café. In Beginner’sLuck, Laura Pedersen introduces us to the endearing oddballs and eccentrics of CosgroveCounty, Ohio, who burst to life and steal our hearts–and none more so than HalliePalmer, sixteen, savvy, and wise beyond her years, a young woman who knows life isa gamble . . . and sometimes you have to bet the house.