Based on: Original work
Era: Modern
Main Characters: Sonia Amundsen
By: Mary Simonsen


Synopsis:

Sonia Amundsen looks like a Nordic goddess on the outside, but her heart, soul, and stomach are all Italian. She is also a successful professional who is about to celebrate her 30th birthday. Although friends have been setting her up on blind dates for two years, she never goes out on a second date with any of them because she is still looking for that perfect guy. The problem is that she has very specific criteria as to who Mr. Right is. Sonia is beginning to think that such a man is not out there until... Set in the late 1980s, Sonia is surrounded by an extended Italian family, a caring, but over-bearing mother, warring aunts who use family funerals to stage full-blow tragedies, and a close friend, whose main goals in life are to get pregnant and to help Sonia find true love. The Second Date explores friendship and love in the heart of the Italian-American community where food is second importance only to love.

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About Mary Simonsen

I have been captivated by the novels of Jane Austen since I first read Pride & Prejudice in English class at Elmwood Park High School in northern New Jersey more than three decades ago. After retiring from a career as a legal secretary in Dallas and a second career as a special education assistant in school districts in Maryland and Arizona, I turned my attention to writing a novel that has been swirling around in my head for about ten years. That story is Searching for Pemberley which is available in book stores and on line. A second Austen re-imagining, The Perfect Bride for Mr. Darcy, will be published in December 2010 by Sourcebooks. I have also self-published a Persuasion re-imagining, Anne Elliot, A New Beginning, (available in May 2010) and a modern novel, The Second Date, a romance set in the heart of the Italian-American community of North Jersey in the 1990s. It is the story of one woman’s search for the perfect guy with some help from friends and family. Both novels are available exclusively on Amazon. After crisscrossing the country with my husband of thirty-plus years, Paul and I finally settled in Peoria, Arizona, a suburb of Phoenix, with our two grown daughters and granddaughter. We spend most of our time in the Valley of the Sun, but when the temperatures hit the triple digits, we head up to the High Country in Flagstaff—a cool retreat and a great place to write a book.