Perfect book at the perfect time…

I adored The Two Family House and The Wartime Sisters so it is no suprise that it was love at first sight the moment I saw the cover of this beauty!

I devoured The Matchmaker’s Gift and have been thinking about it a lot even after I finished. It is a moving story of Sara Glickman, a young girl in early 1900s New York who secretly acts as a matchmaker before her time and during a period when only the devout Jewish older men did that type of work. Jumping ahead in time, Abby, Sara’s granddaughter, a divorce attorney in NYC, inherits her grandmother’s journals with notes about the matches. She begins to question her own career choice and realizes maybe the journals weren’t the only thing she inherited. Does her happiness lie in her current law job or should she follow in her grandmother’s footsteps and utilize her own matchmaking intuition?

With a bit of magical realism, dual timelines, engrossing stories of compelling women from different generations, humor and Yiddish words here and there, Lynda Loigman has come up with a perfect combination to shine a light on women’s struggles wrapped up in a heartfelt, well written novel. The Matchmaker’s Gift is filled with warm feelings of comforting Jewish heritage, love, hope and opportunity, all rolled into a big hug from old New York… just what I needed!

And Big News…

Lynda’s new book, The Love Elixir of Augusta Stern, published this month, has been chosen as a Book of the Month Club and a People Magazine Book of the Week! It is about a woman pharmacist from the 1920s who retires to Florida and runs face to face into the man who broke her heart 60 years prior. Strong women, second chances, 1920s NY and Florida’s retirement community – what’s not to love! Grab copies of Lynda’s books and settle in for the Fall!

About Lynda Cohen Loigman

Lynda Cohen Loigman graduated from Harvard College and Columbia Law School. Her debut novel, The Two-Family House, was a USA Today bestseller and a nominee for the Goodreads 2016 Choice Awards in Historical Fiction. Her second novel, The Wartime Sisters, was selected as a Woman’s World Book Club pick and a Best Book of 2019 by Real Simple Magazine.

Her most recent book, The Matchmaker’s Gift, was named a Best New Book by People Magazine and a Best Book of Fall by the New York Post, Parade Magazine, Buzzfeed, and Good Morning America.com. The Love Elixir of Augusta Stern is her fourth novel.