Help!
Okay so I have to put this out there because possession of this knowledge is poisoning me slowly but surely.
As I was on Goodreads rating books I had already read and making note of the ones I’d like to read there was one book that came to mind that I started but never finished (as I so often do). It was one of those situations that likens those romantic movies where there are two perfectly matched people that meet on a boat or a park or store or something and then somehow lose each other tragically without knowing or remembering each others names. The young lovers have to rely on a fortuitous turn of events or some sort of benevolent serendipity to be reuinited.
That’s not what the book’s about but it’s sort of my story with this book. Book clues after the jump:
* the author is a British man and an editor of an American magazine like W or Vanity Fair
* Setting: English countryside, small town
* The story starts out in the 1960s with a wealthy young man who lives in one of those country estates. His parents are lord and lady I think.
* the son is getting ready for a party he doesn’t want to go to
* he meets a sultry young French woman who came with a friend of his
* He runs after her to France and they get married
* They live in a cottage of some sort, but not happily
* the story alternates between present and past. The young man I believe grows up and later marries a few other women.
* the book tells the story of him as the patriarch of his own family and of this family
* The book was published fairly recently like between 2003 and 2010
I know it’s not much to go on but could anyone help me name that book?
Also: had to give honorable mention to Dolly Parton and her interesting video for her cover of Help!
I’m not much of a country music person but Dolly is pretty adorable and I just had to share the video.
