- Paperback: 288 pages
- Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd (7 Mar 2002)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0140298282
- ISBN-13: 978-0140298284
- Product Dimensions: 17.6 x 11 x 2.2 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 3,359,960 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Jimmy's Girl is the story of first love lost and of the price to be paid for finding it again...Emily Hudson should be happy. She lives a good quiet life with her husband and four children. But one day, somewhere between the train schedules, orthodontist appointments, and cake sales, Emily stopped and remembered who she was when she was sixteen and how she felt when she found love with James Moran - the young man she kissed beneath her parents' ping-pong table - the boy who made her JIMMY'S GIRL. It's been thirty years. But Emily can't stop herself from thinking about Jimmy...nor can she resist using the Internet to find him...and placing the phone call that will change both their lives forever.
About the Author
Stephanie Gertler is a freelance journalist who has been writing all her life. She lives with her husband and their children in Scarsdale, New York, where she is working on her second novel.
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Format:Paperback
This is a tale of opportunities missed and moments lost. Emily Hudson and Jimmy Moran were once childhood sweethearts but due to a misunderstanding split up and drifted apart. Thirty years later they are back in touch and the years suddenly slip away. A powerful and evocative tale filled with bittersweet memories of youth and first love.
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13 of 13 people found the following review helpful
Great back story details
11 Jan 2001
Format:Hardcover
This surprisingly well written first novel jumps between the two perspectives of former sweethearts. Gertler does a great job mixing important back-story details from when the characters were teens thirty years earlier into each of the two narratives as she pushes the present-day stories forward. Too often back-story is written (and edited) without much thought, simply as a device to provide details to tie things together. But in Jimmy's Girl, the back-story is more important than the present and is written with power. This book took me by surprise. I was fortunate enough to receive an advance copy and expected to read only a couple of chapters, but ended up finishing it in two very enjoyable evenings.
11 of 11 people found the following review helpful
****Amazing****
14 Feb 2001
Format:Hardcover
I loved this book! It was so romantic! I couldn't put it down, yet I didn't want it to end! It is written beautifully. The characters become your friends. You can feel their pain and their joy. It is both funny and sad without trying to be either. When the book was over I felt like I had lost a good friend. I have recommended it to all my friends, and any of them that have read it have also loved it; mothers AND daughters. It is a timeless , beautiful story. I can't wait to see what this promising new authors next book is about.
10 of 10 people found the following review helpful
A Great "what if" Book
22 Jan 2001
Format:Hardcover
Emily feels neglected (she is), James feels he made some wrong choices (he did). But Emily carries "what if" one step further. She looks James up on the internet and phones him. He was her first love and they thought they had a future together until he went into the Marines and then to Vietnam. They arrange to meet each other for a weekend in Washington,DC. It's a little (a lot) unrealistic that their spouses don't put up more of a fuss but I guess if they did, the book would have been much shorter. In any case, they DO meet again and then it REALLY gets interesting.
If you like a book about relationships and second chances, you won't go wrong with this one.
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