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The Happy Life of Isadora Bentley

The Happy Life of Isadora Bentley

Women's FictionRomance
Pages
336
Published
2023
Language
English

Synopsis

Isadora Bentley believes in facts, not feelings. As a university researcher, she has a very comfortable, completely isolated life, and she wants to keep it that way. But on her thirtieth birthday, she makes an uncharacteristic impulse purchase: a magazine featuring a silly article, "Thirty-One Ways to Be Happy." Determined to prove the writer wrong, Isadora launches her own secret research project, testing each step herself. What she doesn't expect is that her experiment will lead her to a quirky cast of characters — Cal, Darby, Marty, and young Delilah — and a handsome professor who might just challenge her theories on love and happiness.

Genres

Women's Fiction Romance Contemporary Literature Contemporary Romance

About the author

C
Courtney Walsh

Courtney Walsh is an American novelist, playwright and theatre director who writes small-town contemporary romance and women's fiction. Her debut novel, A Sweethaven Summer, reached the New York Times and USA Today e-book bestseller lists and was a Carol Award finalist for debut author; her novel Just Let Go won the Carol Award in 2019. She lives in Illinois, where she and her husband co-own a performing arts studio and youth theatre.

Characters

Isadora BentleyProtagonist
Delilah (Isadora Bentley)Supporting

A ten-year-old girl Isadora meets during her research project — a younger echo of Isadora herself.

Marty (Isadora Bentley)Supporting

An old man Isadora meets in the park during her happiness research project.

All characters in The Happy Life of Isadora Bentley