Finding Colin Firth (Original)

by Mia March

[Cocktails and Books]

This book was not anything like I expected it to be. Although, I’m not entirely sure what it was that I expected. It’s a story of three women, all in different places of their lives, searching for answers. Their paths cross and the questions they all have revolve around the IDEA of Colin Firth.

For those of you who are not aware of who Colin Firth is (I can’t imagine there being many who do not know this handsome, charming man), he is a British actor best known for his role of Mr. Darcy in Pride & Prejudice and Bridget Jones’s Diary (yes, he was a Darcy in that one too!). Women are drawn to him for obvious reasons (Google him if you must!).

In any case, the three women that cross paths are all anticipating a movie production that will star Mr. Colin Firth. Gemma, a hard working woman who is seeking solace and comfort with a friend, is given the opportunity to be a journalist in the same town the movie is being made. While there, she is hell bent on getting the chance to interview Mr. Firth. Bea, a young woman who just found out that the people she’s known as her parents her entire life, are indeed not, and she sets out to this same town looking for her birth mother. Her birth mother just happens to be Veronica, the third piece to our puzzle. Veronica is looking for a fresh start and maybe a rom com romance to boot. It’s in their flaws and their desperation to be a part of a Colin Firth type movie life, that the three women find themselves and their complicated situations entwined with one another.

The story is moving, fun and, well… charming. It’s a sweet contemporary romance that reunites a mother and daughter, restores a woman’s faith in love and romance, and brings a family closer together. And, well, it’s got plenty of the dashing Mr. Darcy. What’s not to love?

Reviewed by Marie for Cocktails and Books