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Author: Anjali Banerjee

Publisher: The Berkley Publishing Group

ISBN: 978-0-425-24530-9

Anjai Banerjee has a marvelous way of telling a romantic love story without it being too mushy, overly sentimental or campy in her sixth novel, Enchanting Lily.

This three hundred and six page paperback book has an offset photograph of a white furry cat with one green eye and one blue eye laying among lace with a review on the front cover and two long paragraphs about the book content with two more reviews, an author biography and small author photograph on the back. No typographical, grammatical or punctuation errors were noticed. There is minor profanity and the book is targeted towards women but might be enjoyed by cat lovers or men also.

The love story is about widowed Lily who pulls up roots in San Francisco after her dearly loved husband dies in a car accident. Being young and adventurous but very melancholy and devoted to her past, Lily packs up all her belongings and drives up to Washington, ending up in the small town of Shelter Island. The minute she arrives, she is drawn to a small cottage that she envisions turning into a boutique to sell vintage clothing downstairs while living upstairs, in hoping to keep her husband’s memories alive. From the beginning, a wandering white cat piques her interests, even though she wants nothing to do with the precocious feline.

As Lily starts to become attached to the enchanting cat, the cat sees not only her pain and loneliness but the customers’ emotions who enter the boutique as well as ghosts that visit the house, including Lily’s deceased husband. With the kitten’s sixth sense and prompting, Lily is introduced to Ben, the local veterinarian whose daughter, Bish, is a breath of fresh air and friend to Lily. While Lily tries to rid deep memories of her husband, Ben’s ex-wife returns, causing more relationship issues between Lily and the father and daughter. In the end one wonders if releasing the past is the only way to look toward the future.

This is a delightful, quick, page-turner read of accepting one’s own faults and misfortunes from the past and moving on to happiness and enchantment with love, life and others. Sometimes the book is written from the cat’s perspective which makes it very charming by seeing the world through a tabby’s animalistic vision. Unfortunately, as one gets toward the end of the book, she or he does not realize the last almost twenty pages a tease of Banerjee’s next novel. The only downside is that the love story abruptly ends while the reader wishes it would go on forever.

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