FALLING FOR PRINCE CHARLES
Lauren
Baratz-Logsted
Releasing on February 9, 2016
Diversion Books
Daisy Silverman has always been obsessed with His Royal
Highness, Prince Charles. When the underachieving 30-something cleaning lady
wins a million dollars, she follows her lifelong dream to go to London. Once
there, she meets Prince Charles—the real Prince Charles. Through a series of
misunderstandings, the Royal Family doesn't realize that Daisy's Jewish or that
she's spent her life up to the elbows in the wrong kind of toilet water. By the
time they do, Daisy is in love with Charles, Charles is in love with Daisy, and
the Queen's white gloves are off.
FALLING FOR PRINCE CHARLES is an offbeat
alternate-universe romantic comedy showing the heir to the British throne in a
light quite unlike any he's been seen in before.
"Daisy's madcap adventure is more comedy than
romance, and her most unusual and unlikely relationship with Prince Charles
will appeal to reads looking for lots of giggles." —Publishers
Weekly
"Lauren Baratz-Logsted has mastered the real life
fairy tale in her explosive and hilarious FALLING FOR PRINCE CHARLES. It's all
here, lovelorn Daisy Silverman flush with cash and high hopes, Prince Charles
who can't resist her, and London in all its splendor. Curl up and get ready to
laugh long into the foggy night." —Adriana Trigiani, New York
Times bestselling author of THE SHOEMAKER'S WIFE
As Daisy Silverman squatted in front of the toilet bowl, first depressing the flush lever and then watching as the milky outgoing spiral removed the mildew and replaced it with fresh water, the thought occurred to her for at least the thousandth time that if the fickle hand of fate hadn’t cast her as a cleaning lady, working in wealthy households and offices in Westport, Connecticut, she would most certainly have made a perfectly lovely Princess of Wales.
This was a fantasy that Daisy had
entertained off and on since 1981, the same year that the late Princess Diana
had first become Princess Diana. And to this day, eighteen years later,
whenever she thought about it, Daisy still thought that she could have done the
job better.
Oh, sure, Daisy had loved the late
Princess, would have said that she loved her more than anybody. Well, actually
even Daisy was aware enough not to say that; she did know that Diana’s family
and friends had surely loved her more. But Daisy could legitimately claim to
love her easily as much as anybody who had never met her, and that was plenty.
So, if Daisy felt a little competitive with a dead Princess that she had loved
beyond reason, what matter that? After all, there were some compelling reasons
for making a comparison between the two women.
Just like the woman who had
possessed the most photographed profile in the world, Daisy had a genius for
making the kind of seemingly interested, throwaway comment that left others
feeling a little cheerier about their own lot in life. Although even Daisy had
felt that the Princess had been pushing things a bit, several years back, when
she had blithely informed a widow on the dole with a flat full of small
children: “Oh, yes, I just love those microwave pizzas too. Whenever the Heir
and the Spare start to look a little peaked, I just nuke a couple of them in
the Palace micro, and we’re all set to go skiing in Klosters or windsurfing on
Necker.” Or, if those hadn’t been her exact words, it had been something
equally inappropriate...
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Lauren Baratz-Logsted is the author of over
25 books for adults, teens (including The Twin’s Daughter and Little Women and
Me), and children (The Sisters 8, a nine-book series she created with her
husband and daughter). Before becoming an author, Lauren was an independent bookseller,
freelance editor, Publishers Weekly reviewer, sort-of librarian and window
washer. She lives with her family in Danbury, CT. Visit her at
www.laurenbaratzlogsted.com or follow her @LaurenBaratzL on Twitter.
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