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Title details for The Fairytale Life of Dorothy Gale by Virginia Kantra - Available

The Fairytale Life of Dorothy Gale

by Virginia Kantra
Rachel L. Jacobs
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A woman learns to follow her own road in this heartwarming novel inspired by The Wizard of Oz by New York Times bestselling author Virginia Kantra.
 
Dorothy “Dee” Gale is searching for a place to belong. After their globe-trotting mother’s death, Dee and her sister Toni settled with Uncle Henry and Aunt Em in Kansas, where Dee attends graduate school. But when Dee’s relationship with a faculty member, a bestselling novelist, ends in heartbreak and humiliation, she’s caught in a tornado of negative publicity. Unable to face her colleagues—or her former lover—Dee applies to the writing program at Trinity College Dublin.
 
Dee’s journey to Ireland leads her to new companions: seemingly brainless Sam Clery—who dropped out of college and now runs a newsagent’s shop—is charming and hot, in a dissolute, Irish poet kind of way; allegedly heartless Tim Woodman—who stiffly refused to take back his ex-fiancée—seems stuck in his past; and fiercely loyal Reeti Kaur, who longs for the courage to tell her parents she wants to teach underprivileged girls rather than work in the family business.
 
In a year of opportunities and changes, love and loss, Dee is mentored by powerful women in the writing program, challenging her to see herself and her work with new eyes. With her friends, Dee finds the confidence to confront her biggest fears—including her intimidating graduate advisor, who may not be so wicked after all.
 
Faced with a choice with far-reaching consequences, Dee must apply the lessons she’s learned along the way about making a family, finding a home...and recognizing the power that’s been inside her all along.

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    December 5, 2023

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      • ISBN: 9780593747421
      • File size: 338693 KB
      • Duration: 11:45:36

  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • AudioFile Magazine
      Kansas student Dee Gale transfers to Trinity College, Dublin, in this contemporary retelling of THE WIZARD OF OZ, narrated by Rachel L. Jacobs. Dee's friends, Irishman Sam Clery and Brit Tim Woodman, are portrayed by Damian Gildea and Christian Coulson. Jacobs expresses Dee's anguish as she recovers from an inappropriate relationship with a member of her former university's faculty and regains her self-confidence as a writer. Gildea delves into Sam's defensive feelings about having dropped out of university and his late father. Coulson murmurs Tim's restrained, almost mechanical, dialogue even as he sells Tim's appeal as a quiet but dependable friend. Even the witches make an appearance as Dee's faculty advisors. Jacobs's empathy, together with Gildea's and Coulson's impeccable contributions, makes for a wondrous listen. C.A. © AudioFile 2024, Portland, Maine

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