The Brilliant Life of Eudora Honeysett - Annie Lyons

Written by Annie Lyons
Read by Nicolette McKenzie
Format: MP3

Publisher: HarperAudio
Release date: September 8, 2020
Duration: 10:39:48

It’s never too late to start living.

Eudora Honeysett is done with this noisy,moronic world—all of it. She has witnessed the indignities and suffering of old age and has lived a full life, and at eighty-five, she isn’t going to leave things to chance. Her end will be on her terms. With one call to a clinic in Switzerland, a plan is set in motion.

Then she meets ten-year-old Rose Trewidney, a whirling, pint-sized rainbow of sparkling cheer. All Eudora wants is to be left alone to set her affairs in order. Instead, she finds herself embarking on a series of adventures with the irrepressible Rose and their affable neighbor, the recently widowed Stanley—afternoon tea, shopping sprees, trips to the beach, birthday celebrations, pizza parties.

While the trio of unlikely BFFs grow closer and anxiously await the arrival of Rose’s new baby sister, Eudora is reminded of her own childhood—of losing her father during World War II and the devastating impact it had on her entire family. In reflecting on her past, Eudora realizes she must come to terms with what lies ahead.

But now that her joy for life has been rekindled, how can she possibly say goodbye?

“A sensitive examination of human connections that can both damage and heal.”

Booklist – “…Although it seems that Eudora never makes it to Switzerland, British author Lyons builds a certain and compassionate case for why her protagonist wants to go through vibrant flashbacks that reveal the depth of Eudora’s character and sources of despair. Teeming with curmudgeonly elders and precocious youngsters, Lyons’ touching tale of intergenerational friendship.”