Lily does not believe in the curse but she will witness how true it is when she tells Gogo to pinch her as she cannot believe her good fortune that she has married a good man. The only way to have a man stay is to marry a ugly man. If they marry a man for love than something will happen to him.

Both Lily’s mother and grandma warn Lily that marrying Gogo will only lead to heart break. Lily receives a surprise when Gogo proposes to at the top of the Eiffel Tower in Paris. Lily has been dating Gogo for just a short period. If you are to marry, make sure it is to a ugly man. This could be because both her mom and grandma have warned her that all men are evil and to never marry for love. In this modern fairy tale, Lily must find a way to break the curse and turn her nightmare back into a dream come true. When Lily tracks him down, she finds that he’s married to someone else and has no memory of her. The moment he does, Lily finds herself transported back to the house she lived in when she was single. Unable to believe her good fortune, Lily asks Gogo to pinch her-to make sure all this isn’t just a dream. If she marries for love, there will be unimaginable consequences. They decide it’s time to tell her the truth: their family is cursed. When she agrees to marry him, Dolly and Selma are inconsolable. Despite this, when she meets Gogo, the handsome, successful pediatrician who treats her like a queen, she has no choice but to let her heart take over. “Never marry a man unless he’s short, bald, fat, stupid, and treats you badly.” That is the advice that twenty-nine-year-old Lily Burns has heard her entire life from her grandmother Dolly and her mother, Selma. Does she dare stay young for more than this day, even if it means leaving everyone she loves behind?įresh, funny, and delightful, 29 is an enchanting adventure about families, love, and the real lessons of youth.LILY MARRIED THE MAN OF HER DREAMS. While Ellie finds that the life of a twenty-something is not as carefree as she expected, the sheer joy of being young again prompts her to consider living her life all over. But who expects a wish like that to come true?Ģ9 is the story of three generations of women and how one magical day shakes up everything they know about each other. So when she finds herself confronted with a cake full of candles, Ellie wishes more than anything that she could be twenty-nine again, just for one day. Ellie's done everything she can to stay young, and the last thing she wants is to celebrate another birthday.

What if you closed your eyes, blew out the candles, and your wish came true? Ellie Jerome is a young-at-heart seventy-five-year-old who feels she has more in common with her twenty-nine-year-old granddaughter, Lucy, than her fifty-five-year-old daughter, Barbara.

29 by adena halpern