Matchmaking for Beginners

Marnie MacGraw wants an ordinary life: a husband, children and a minivan in the suburbs. She is about to marry the man she considers her dream partner, and she is certain that life is within reach.

Then she meets Blix Holliday, her fiancé's great-aunt. Blix is irascible, dying and a matchmaker, and she tells Marnie that her plans are about to go differently. Her prediction proves right. The marriage falls apart after only two miserable weeks, and Marnie is left shocked.

Marnie sees nothing special in herself. Blix, however, has decided Marnie is exactly the right person to take over her matchmaking work. Marnie has to find out whether Blix is right about that too.

The book is a contemporary women's novel with a comic, warm streak, built on a reluctant apprentice and a sharp-tongued mentor. Along the way Marnie learns, the hard way, how difficult love is to recognise, and that the people who push it away are often the ones who need it most.