So, this is a flag in the sand moment, I am championing this understated author. I recently read about a gentleman who loved Douglas Kennedy books so much he would hand out free copies of 'The Big Picture' on the New York subway. My husband, who has widely different tastes to me, also enjoyed them. I would recommend his books to customers, who would become converts. To me, he should have been top of the Bestseller Lists, but somehow always seemed to fly just under the radar. I truly fell in love this book, and subsequent works by Douglas Kennedy. The promotion was about discovering new authors and reading them for summer, which is how a proof of The Big Picture fell into my hot little bookselling mitts. Clearly someone in Marketing loved their numbers in Fiction based Marketing. This was followed by 'Seven for Summer' and, oh I don't know 'Eight for Easter' probably. I first discovered the wonderful Douglas Kennedy during my stint as a Bookseller when I was lucky enough to be asked to be on a reading Panel for 'Six for Summer' as it was known back in the day.
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