The Magic of Found Objects

A Novel

By: Maddie Dawson

Narrated by: Lauren Ezzo

From the bestselling author of Matchmaking for Beginners comes a feel-good story about becoming who you were meant to be all along.

Phronsie Linnelle was conceived at Woodstock in a serendipitous liaison between a free-spirited hippie and a farmer’s son and was born with magical wonder flickering in her DNA and rationality knit into her bones. All her life she’s been torn between the two. But now that she’s been betrayed by both love and the mother she once idolized, her rational side is winning.

So when her best friend from childhood proposes that they give up on romance and marry each other, Phronsie agrees. Who better to spend your life with than your best friend? Maybe the connection they already have is love. Maybe there’s no falling to be done. But immediately after they announce their engagement, she encounters someone who makes a very charming and compelling argument for revisiting romance.

While her even-keeled stepmother argues for the safety that comes with her new engagement and her mother relays messages from the universe to hold out for true love, Phronsie must look to her own heart to find the answers that have been there all along.

©2021 Maddie Dawson. (P)2021 Brilliance Publishing, Inc., all rights reserved.

Page turner

Loved this sweet story! Narration of male characters took a while to get used to, but they worked.

fun summer read

relatable quirky story hard to put down will definitely read other books by same author

perfection

I loved this story, my heart broke into million pieces so many times. I would listen to it again sometime. Thank you.

Fun, easy listen

This was a fun, easy listen that I was quickly addicted to! I am bummed it's over.

Not so magical

As a 60-something reader, I’m not the target demographic for this book, but the reviews lured me in. The book is overwrought and the writing is overly precious. The self-absorbed narrator was the least interesting character, and she became downright annoying as the story meandered to its conclusion. So did the narrator of the audio book.