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Brenda Bowen

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Born

Philadelphia, The United States

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http://www.brendabowen.com

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Genre

Fiction, Contemporary

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June 2009

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BRENDA BOWEN read Pride and Prejudice in one sitting when she was twelve and has never quite recovered. She is devoted to Jane Austen, Mary Wesley, Philip Roth, Charlotte Bronte, Emily Dickinson, Billy Collins, Billy Shakespeare, Billie Holliday, Billy Wilder, and many other people named Billy. She lives and writes on Manhattan’s Upper West Side. Her favorite food in all the world is the blueberry.

If you are curious as to how Brenda got the idea for Enchanted August, this is what she says: “I almost never watch a movie based on a book before reading the book, but in the case of Enchanted April (the movie) I didn’t even know there was The Enchanted April (the book by the incomparable Elizabeth von Arnim). I saw the movie, loved it, read the ...more

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	The Enchanted April by Elizabeth von Arnim, Brenda Bowen (Goodreads Author) (Introduction) 3.86 avg rating — 46,561 ratings — published 1922 — 1273 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Enchanted August 3.27 avg rating — 2,560 ratings — published 2015	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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“Life presents us with the same lesson over and over again until we learn it,”
― Brenda Bowen, Enchanted August: A Novel

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“Wherever I go, there I am.”
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“path. Summer”
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