Review: Finding Colin Firth – Mia March

From the author of The Meryl Streep Movie Club, a “heart-warming, spirit-lifting read just in time for beach season” (Kirkus Reviews), comes a new novel about three women, connected in secret and surprising ways, who are in for a life-changing summer when rumor has it that actor Colin Firth is coming to their Maine town to film a movie.

After losing her job and leaving her beloved husband, journalist Gemma Hendricks is sure that scoring an interview with Colin Firth will save her career and marriage. Yet a heart-tugging local story about women, family ties, love, and loss captures her heart— and changes everything. The story concerns Bea Crane, a floundering twenty-two-year-old who learns in a deathbed confession letter that she was adopted at birth. Bea is in Boothbay Harbor to surreptitiously observe her biological mother, Veronica Russo—something of a legend in town—who Bea might not be ready to meet after all. Veronica, a thirty-eight-year-old diner waitress famous for her “healing” pies, has come home to Maine to face her past. But when she’s hired as an extra on the bustling movie set, she wonders if she is hiding from the truth . . . and perhaps the opportunity of a real-life Mr. Darcy.

These three women will discover more than they ever imagined in this coastal Maine town, buzzing with hopes of Colin Firth. Even the conjecture of his arrival inspires daydreams, amplifies complicated lives, and gives incentive to find their own romantic endings.

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Release Date: July 9, 2013
Publisher: Gallery Books
Source: Edelweiss
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Reviewer’s Thoughts

This book was not anything like I expected it to be. Although, I’m not entirely sure what it was that I expected. It’s a story of three women, all in different places of their lives, searching for answers. Their paths cross and the questions they all have revolve around the IDEA of Colin Firth.

For those of you who are not aware of who Colin Firth is (I can’t imagine there being many who do not know this handsome, charming man), he is a British actor best known for his role of Mr. Darcy in Pride & Prejudice and Bridget Jones’s Diary (yes, he was a Darcy in that one too!). Women are drawn to him for obvious reasons (Google him if you must!).

In any case, the three women that cross paths are all anticipating a movie production that will star Mr. Colin Firth. Gemma, a hard working woman who is seeking solace and comfort with a friend, is given the opportunity to be a journalist in the same town the movie is being made. While there, she is hell bent on getting the chance to interview Mr. Firth. Bea, a young woman who just found out that the people she’s known as her parents her entire life, are indeed not, and she sets out to this same town looking for her birth mother. Her birth mother just happens to be Veronica, the third piece to our puzzle. Veronica is looking for a fresh start and maybe a rom com romance to boot. It’s in their flaws and their desperation to be a part of a Colin Firth type movie life, that the three women find themselves and their complicated situations entwined with one another.

The story is moving, fun and, well… charming. It’s a sweet contemporary romance that reunites a mother and daughter, restores a woman’s faith in love and romance, and brings a family closer together. And, well, it’s got plenty of the dashing Mr. Darcy. What’s not to love?