Underlying Notes is a new romance novel with a perfume twist:
More than a cocktail for hot flashes and fluctuating libido, Underlying Notes strews crumbs of callousness, blame, self-sacrifice, repression, and restlessness along the unmarked trails of introspection and reinvention weaving through Carla Matteo’s journey to find her own niche in the Second Act of life.
Fragrance addiction numbs the pain of her father’s tragic death, wards off the sting of a severed adolescent friendship, fortifies her against the stench of employment in her husband’s waste management company on land purported to have been swindled from a downtrodden pig farmer by her shady father-in-law, and wafts through fantasies of having a fling with hubby’s paesano.
During a mid-life renaissance, the “juice” offers false security in Carla’s quest to reinvent herself, while the ominous rose note in Paloma Picasso forces her to confront a troubled past…Her account is as multi-layered as the fragrances she wears to permeate back-stories that illuminate the present and surrender underlying secrets one morsel at a time.
Underlying Notes by Eva Pasco is available now at Amazon in paperback, $15.95.
Update: Underlying Notes has a new cover (see right), and is now available from BookLocker as an eBook ($8.95) or print book ($15.95); you can read Chapters 1 to 3 at the website for no charge.
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I am not really sure what to make of this.
This is deep…
Would love to read this book. But not now, just someday.
I like the idea of a novel w/ “underlying” perfume notes, but don't generally enjoy romance novels.
Perhaps someday you will, then
Well I do like novels and romance novels but this seems a bit farfetched. Why couldn't she just not get hooked on cocaine and doe a rehab with the aid of perfumes…?
Sigh…
No, I am sure it is a fine book but it sounds so complicated. Some of the sentences in the review would fit the ad campaign of a new fragrnace.
I still have a book that I have never read. It's called The Perfume or maybe it has a different title in English. It is some sort of thriller.
My husband has read it and loved it.
Uh-oh. This is my life with the details slightly rearranged. Better pass.
Is this for real? Geez, it sounds like an olfactory version of Peyton Place, lol!
Hugs!
If that's the Suskind book, it's very popular and was made into a movie last year.
LOL!!!!
R, it definitely sounds like the romance genre!
As NST said, please read this if it's the Suskind book. I read and re-read 'Perfume' as an impressionable adolescent and it's stayed with me. Haven't seen the movie as I can't quite imagine how you'd translate the incredibly rich, evocative description of scents that practically drip off the page onto the cinema screen. As for *this* book? Well, the precis just makes me think pretentious arse!
It is the Suskind book.. nice to read that you are enthousiastic about it.
This is begging to be made into a tv movie on Lifetime or the Hallmark channel. It also sounds like one of those serialized novels in the back Good Housekeeping etc.
As I said above — I'm not into the romance genre. They all sound like Hallmark channel to me. At least this one has perfume!
Greetings from Eva Pasco, Romance/Fiction novelist:
UNDERLYING NOTES
I enjoyed reading the above comments. In response to those who felt the novel may be far-fetched…au contraire. Tired of reading articles about high achieving women of financial means scaling mountain peaks, windsurfing, or seeking mysticism in Tibet…the seed for UNDERLYING NOTES was sown. Carla Matteo is a woman with inhibitions, anxieties, fears, and commitments who must confront issues of female friendship, romantic temptation, and family obligations. It is a story strewn with crumbs of callousness, blame, self-sacrifice, repression, and introspection. To parpharase one comment, “It is deep.”
How often have we sniffed a fragrance that has evoked a memory? Well, the ominous rose note in Paloma Picasso does just that. As Carla huddles in a corner with her neighbor Alice, waiting for the rescue, the toppled ladder and painted roses on the ceiling force her to confront her father's tragic death….
“Oftentimes the most arduous journeys wend through our past.”
Sincerely,
Eva Pasco
Thanks for commenting!