The matchmaker

By Elin Hilderbrand

Subjects: Man-woman relationships, Married people, fiction, Fiction, romance, contemporary, Fiction, Terminally ill, Man-woman relationships, fiction, Fiction, family life, nyt:combined-print-and-e-book-fiction=2014-06-29, Mate selection, Friendship, New York Times bestseller, Fiction, family life, general, Nantucket island (mass.), fiction

Description: Dabney Kimball Beech, the 48-year-old Director of the Nantucket Chamber of Commerce and fifth generation Nantucketer, has had a lifelong gift of matchmaking (52 couples still together to her credit). But when Dabney discovers she is dying of pancreatic cancer, she sets out to find matches for a few people very close to home: her husband, John Boxmiller Beech, celebrated economist and Harvard professor; her lover, Clendenin Hughes, Pulitzer-winning journalist who lost his arm in Southeast Asia; and her daughter, Agnes, who is engaged to be married to the wrong man. As time slips away from Dabney, she is determined to find matches for those she loves most - but at what cost to her own relationships?.