5/23/2023 0 Comments Josie silver![]() ![]() You might think this is a meet-cute situation, but Silver is smarter than that both Cleo and Mack have so much baggage and so many entanglements that all they really want is to be alone. Shortly after Cleo arrives, so does a rugged American stranger, a photographer named Mack who is giving his failing marriage some space while researching his Irish roots. It's well-appointed, it's remote, it faces the sea, it's everything Cleo had hoped, except for one thing: It was double-booked. So off she goes to a remote island off the coast of Ireland to come to terms with singledom. (It's either that or a tattoo, apparently.)īut Cleo has to believe it, first. Most of "One Night on the Island" is narrated by Cleo Wilder, a singles columnist for a London magazine who chronicles her own dismal dating life for readers.Īs Cleo's 30th birthday approaches, her editor suggests that she take a long vacation and "marry herself" - that is, affirm that it is not a failure to be single, and that as "a vibrant, independent woman" she understands there are many ways to have a successful life. In Silver's hands, it's a place with mountains and rain, crashing ocean and tide pools, friendly strangers and a whiff of love. Josie Silver's third novel walks a romantic line between fantasy and reality, and that turns out to be a very satisfying place to dwell for 350 pages. ![]()
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