The Art of Preserving Love

Ada Langton

2018年11月 · Bolinda · 旁述：Stephanie Foxley

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Ballarat, 1905 The gossips call 19-year-old Edie Cottingham the 'Too Girl' – too stubborn, too outspoken and too modern to get a husband. But Edie does not care. She is determined to defy them all and find love with Theo Hooley, the gentle church organist and veteran of the African Boer war. But just as Theo prepares to ask Edie's father for her hand, their world is turned upside down. Edie's mother is gone and she must care for her new baby sister. Gracie is a sickly baby with a special smile that enchants everyone who sees it. How can Edie marry and leave the family home now? But Theo Hooley is a man who knows how to wait. Every Sunday, Theo walks from his home to woo Edie, rose in hand. Each week Edie refuses him, knowing that he is asking for more than a walk around the lake on a Sunday afternoon. Each week Theo resolves anew to wait for her. Slowly the town begins to fall under the spell of the romance. Women sigh and men mutter at the challenge Theo presents to their relationships. As the local children create a growing procession that follows Theo each week, the whole community becomes caught up in his display of devotion, until an unexpected event changes all their lives. From a small Australian country town to the tragic backdrop of World War 1, this is a story of a love that surmounts all odds ...

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Ada Langton lives with her husband, Pete, and her eldest daughter, Indea. Together they enjoy binge TV, dry martinis and all kinds of cheese. Ada has four other children and she hopes they all find someone who will support them to be all they aspire to be. Ada loves to hide away and write whenever she can — as long as there is a good supply of hot darjeeling tea. She was a winner of the Varuna-HarperCollins Manuscript Award, writes a sometimes blog and published two books Sunday Best and After Before Time under the name Robbi Neal. She adopted the pen-name Ada Langton for her fiction. She chose Ada in memory of her great-grandmother who tragically died of cancer aged only forty-five, and Langton in memory of her much-loved grandfather who was the inspiration for Reuben in this novel.

Stephanie Foxley’s career as a radio and television presenter spans over 25 years, beginning in Hong Kong, where she also produced and voiced a number of books for teaching English as a foreign language. In Australia, Stephanie was a regular presenter of news and current affairs programs broadcast to Asia and the Pacific and was also a regular reader for ABC's radio news in Victoria. She now enjoys working as an audiobook narrator and as a Civil Marriage Celebrant.