Introduction

An enchanting novel about fate, second chances, and hope, lost and found, by the Amazon Charts bestselling author of The Last of the Moon Girls.

Soline Roussel is well-schooled in the business of happy endings. For generations, her family has kept an exclusive bridal salon in Paris, where magic is worked with needle and thread. It’s said that the bride who wears a Roussel gown is guaranteed a lifetime of joy. But devastating losses during World War II leave Soline’s world and heart in ruins and her faith in love shaken. She boxes up her memories, stowing them away, along with her broken dreams, determined to forget.

Decades later, while coping with her own tragic loss, aspiring gallery owner Rory Grant leases Soline’s old property and discovers a box containing letters and a vintage wedding dress, never worn. When Rory returns the mementos, an unlikely friendship develops, and eerie parallels in Rory’s and Soline’s lives begin to surface. It’s clear that they were destined to meet?and that Rory may hold the key to righting a forty-year wrong and opening the door to shared healing and, perhaps, a little magic.

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Discussion Questions

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1. The Keeper of Happy Endings takes place in multiple time periods. Do you feel
this device helped or hurt in telling the story? Was one time period more “real” to
you than the others?

2. They talk about the magic of the dresses to guarantee happy endings. Do you
think they are talking about real magic? If you had a chance to guarantee your
own happy ending the same way, would you take it? Why?

3. Barbara Davis describes different kinds of grief very vividly in the story. How did
her descriptions make you feel for the characters? Can you relate to them?

4. Which of the women in the story was your favorite? Least favorite? Why?

5. Did any of the heroines make choices you didn’t agree with? What would you
have done differently?

6. With all of it’s talk of magical dresses against the backdrop of World War II Paris,
did the book feel original to you? Which parts did or didn’t?

7. Do you feel like the magic was enough to explain the coincidence of Soline and
Rory finding each other?

8. Which parts of the story did you prefer, the historical parts with Soline or the
modern parts with Rory?

9. When you find out how the women are connected, what was your initial reaction?
Did you see it coming?

10.Were there any quotes or passages that really stood out to you that you read
more than once or highlighted? What struck you about them?

11. The book has its own very happy ending. Did that feel right to you? Not realistic?
Perfect? How did you feel about it?

12.Was there anything you found frustrating about the book? What was it and what
bothered you about it?

13.If you could change one thing about the story (if anything), what would it be?

14.Did it make you want to read more books by Barbara Davis?

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