Love Comes Calling

Morgan Hallett certainly had to keep up her energy level while narrating this 1920s screwball mystery featuring the chaos-attracting, fast-talking Ellis Eton. As Ellis is impersonating her friend, Janey, a telephone operator, to earn some much needed money so she can get herself to Hollywood, she overhears a threat to hunky Griffin Phillips, her next-door neighbor. Ellis's efforts to navigate life with her hoity-toity family, save Janey's job, catch the villains, and make it to Hollywood provide plenty of opportunity for Hallett to shine. Using slight differences in tone for the characters and keeping up the frantic pace, she delivers an entertaining story. A.C.P. © AudioFile 2014, Portland, Maine

January 6, 2014
Ellis Eton can’t seem to do anything right. She’s failing her college classes, gets into all kinds of scrapes, and constantly disappoints her wealthy Boston family. About the only thing she’s good at is being an actress, which serves to get her into another scrape when Ellis agrees to work at the telephone company switchboard for her look-alike friend Janie. Ellis overhears a possible threat to the young man who adores her, Griffin Phillips, which sets her on a path to more drama, more crazy escapades, and a growing awareness of where she fits in the world. Will she finally get something right? Will her family and Griff see her for who she is? Mitchell, author of nearly a dozen other inspirational novels, has created a wild romp through 1920s Boston, but also a thought-provoking look at the morality of Prohibition and the impulsive, restless mind of Ellis, who, as the author notes, would today have been diagnosed with ADHD. Agent: Natasha Kern, Natasha Kern Literary Agency.