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Nancy AthertonAunt Dimity's world, says Dorothy Cannell, is a kind, gentle place where oatmeal cookies, stuffed bunnies, and cozy cottages bring warmth and joy. The latest in this enchanting and fast-selling series opens in the ghostly Dimity's idyllic English cottage. The lovable Lori Shepherd is up to her elbows in pureed carrots and formula bottles as she strives to be the perfect mother to twins! Luckily, a beautiful Italian nanny arrives just in time so Lori can help settle the local civil war stirred up by a visiting archaeologist's excavation. While Lori--with Reginald the stuffed pink rabbit and Edmond Terrance the stuffed tiger in tow--hunts down a missing document and the archaeologist digs up a lot more than artifacts, Dimity's magic blue notebook provides the key to buried secrets and domestic malice, and shows all the residents of Finch that even the darkest acts can be overcome by human forgiveness.
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Nancy Atherton is not a white-haired Englishwoman with a softly wrinkled face, a wry smile, and wise gray eyes, nor does she live in a thatched cottage behind a babbling brook in a tranquil, rural corner of the Cotswolds. She has never taken tea with a vicar (although she drank an Orange Squash with one once) and she doesn't plan to continue writing after her allotted time on earth (though such plans are, as well all know, subject to change without notice) .If you prefer to envision her as an Englishwoman, she urges you to cling to your illusions at all costs -- she treasures carefully nurtured illusions. She also urges you to read no further. Because the truth is that Nancy Atherton is a dark-haired American with a generally unwrinkled face, a beaming smile, and hazel eyes, who lives in a plain house in Colorado Springs. She comes from a large, gregarious family (five brothers and two sisters!) and enjoys socializing as much as she enjoys solitude. So if you are looking for her at a convention, don't look for a stately grande dame in a flowery dress. Look for a woman in jeans and sneakers who's bounding around like a hyperactive gerbil. That'll be her. And she'd love to meet you. Japanese: ???? ?????
