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Overview

Julie Roseman has known since childhood that Rosemans are supposed to despise Cacciamanis. She’s never known exactly why...but she’s followed her family’s advice and avoided all Cacciamanis like the plague. Until she bumps into Romeo Cacciamani at a small-business conference—and realizes he’s sort of...sweet. Now, this unexpected relationship is blooming into something big. But wait until their families find out...

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Overview

Julie Roseman has known since childhood that Rosemans are supposed to despise Cacciamanis. She’s never known exactly why...but she’s followed her family’s advice and avoided all Cacciamanis like the plague. Until she bumps into Romeo Cacciamani at a small-business conference—and realizes he’s sort of...sweet. Now, this unexpected relationship is blooming into something big. But wait until their families find out...

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In Jeanne Ray's debut novel, all hell breaks looks when Julie Rosenman and Romeo Cacciamani, two competing florists in Boston, meet by chance at a small business owners convention and, much to everyone's consternation, begin dating. Not only did Julie, who is sixty and divorced, never expect to find herself interested in dating at her age, but never in a million years did she imagine she'd find herself attracted to a Cacciamani!

As far back as anyone can remember, the Cacciamani and the Rosenman families have been archenemies. Though no one can seem to remember how the feud began, the hatred between the two clans runs deep-deep enough to have compelled Julie and Romeo's own children to break off an engagement some years ago when they found themselves similarly attracted.

Romeo, a sweet, gentle man, and a widower with six children, is surprised at the intensity of his attraction to Julie. Their feelings for each other are immediate, sparking a love affair neither imagined possible. But their children (and Romeo's mother) won't hear of it, and try desperately to pry the two apart, escalating the decades-old war to an all-time high. Words fly, punches are thrown, and ribs broken, but love triumphs.

A sexy, witty and romantic comedy debut, Julie and Romeo find that love after sixty is really no different than love at any other age-once you find it, it's absolutely worth fighting for.

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Our booksellers were surprised by this "great twist" on the classic tale by a similar name. This "captivating" novel introduces Romeo Cacciamani and Julie Roseman, rival florists in Boston whose families have hated each other for generations. Add one intense attraction they choose not to squelch, and yield one "entertaining," "funny" love story for the ages. "Makes you smile and laugh out loud." "Gives me hope that life and sex(!) aren't over after 50!" Recommended reading for fans of Jan Karon. "Ray's next book has already been added to my must-read list."
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Smart and funny....A romance novel for someone wo wouldn't be caught dead reading a romance novel.
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Shakespeare it isn't, but Ray's beguiling first novel succeeds on the level of romantic entertainment. Narrator Julie Roseman is 60, divorced, loving her job running her family's florist business in Somerville, Mass., but uncomfortably aware that it's failing to turn a profit. All her life she's been aware of her father's violent hatred of the Cacciamani family, the town's only other florist; the Cacciamanis have expressed equal rancor. Julie has always wondered about the source of the enmity, which was never explained. The virulence has seeped down to the third generation, especially after Julie's daughter, Sandy, was caught planning to elope with young Tony Cacciamani when the two were in high school. When Julie bumps into widower Romeo Cacciamani at a seminar, however, love immediately blossoms between them. Their offspring react with horror, forbidding their respective parents to see each other again, and, when Julie and Romeo refuse to comply, the children retaliate with serious spite and fury. Despite a reliance on coincidences, Ray handles her material with vitality and humor, and demonstrates a talent for witty dialogue. She's particularly smart and funny in the realm of mother/daughter relationships, as Julie tries to deal with both Sandy, who's divorced and has moved back home with her two children, and her other daughter, Nora, a real estate whiz with a drive for perfection and a dictatorial personality. It's Nora who alerts her father, Mort, to her mother's foolish liaison, bringing Mort and his young new wife back from Seattle to complicate matters. Since it was Mort who walked out in the first place, Julie is justifiably furious. Meanwhile, Romeo enlists his parish priest as go-between and tries to placate his 89-year-old mother, whose malicious antipathy may hold the key to the family vendetta. Ray's charming little bouquet should blossom into an appealing summer read. 75,000 first printing; film rights to Barwood Films; audio rights to Brilliance Audio; rights sold in Germany, Greece, Italy and the U. K. (June) FYI: Ray is the mother of author Ann Padgett. Copyright 2000 Cahners Business Information.|
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A charming, funny, and sexy story of second chances at love is given an effective and eminently listenable reading by its author. Julie (Roseman) and Romeo (Cacciamani), both florists, have heard awful stories about the other's family all their lives, although no one really knows how it all started. Romeo is a widower, running the store with his children, and Julie is divorced, running her store with the help of her daughter, Sandy, while Sandy (also divorced) and her children live with Julie. Animosity is so great between the families that, years ago, both Julie and Romeo had a hand in breaking up the romance of their respective teenaged children. When both families find that Romeo and Julie have met and want to date, everyone (adult children, an ancient matriarch, even Julie's ex) takes extreme (and hilarious) actions to break up this romance, while the couple wonder at the grace of finding one another. Ray narrates as if born to the task not overly polished but perfectly suited to Julie and effective with other characters, using tonal changes rather than vocal impersonations. Her easy manner and direct style seem as real as one's best friends' and just as compelling. Delightful and highly recommended. Melody A. Moxley, Rowan P.L., Salisbury, NC Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information.
Kirkus Reviews
A clever, sexy, comic version of Shakespeare's love story. In place of Montagues and Capulets are Rosemans and Cacciamanis, rival florists in Boston who have always despised each other. `The first time I heard the name Cacciamani," says Julie Roseman, the 60-year-old narrator, "I was five years old. My father said it, and then he spit.` Julie has been avoiding Romeo Cacciamani for years. Seems that long ago Julie's daughter, Sandy, and Romeo's son, Tony, were star-crossed teenagers in love; the unexplained hatred between their families, though, plus interference from Julie and Romeo, squelched their relationship. Now, when Romeo and Julie accidentally meet again at a seminar for ailing small businesses, everything has changed. Julie's divorced from her husband, Mort (who took off with another woman), and Romeo is a widower; both are available, willing, and regretful. That they fall in love is no surprise except to their children, who manifest their disapproval in disarming ways. Adding coincidence to complication, Sandy is now a divorced mother of two, and Tony never married. Will Julie and Romeo get together? Will their children let them? Will Sandy and Tony be reunited? Of course, the real question fuelling this rollicking tale is: What's the story behind the hate? Only Romeo's mother knows, but she's too busy salting the enemy's roses, and too stubborn to tell—until forced to at the end. Julie's appealing narrative voice and refreshing role reversals like the parents meeting in secret make this Shakespeare Redux engaging rather than gimmicky. While there are no "happy daggers," there's plenty of rapier dialogue, benign bloodshed, a note-bearing priest, andawacky , revelatory birthday party reminiscent of the final scene in Moonstruck. Sure-handed and compelling, though it won't be nudging Shakespeare off the shelf anytime soon. First printing of 75,000; film rights to Barwood films

Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780609606728
  • Publisher: Crown Publishing Group
  • Publication date: 5/30/2000
  • Edition description: 1 ED
  • Pages: 240
  • Product dimensions: 5.64 (w) x 8.08 (h) x 0.95 (d)

Meet the Author

Jeanne Rayworks as a registered nurse at the Frist Clinic in Nashville, Tennessee. She is married and has two daughters. Together, she and her husband have ten grandchildren. She is the author of Julie and Romeo, Step-Ball-Change, and Eat Cake.

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The first time I heard the name Cacciamani I was five years old. My father said it, and then he spit. The spitting I had seen before. I watched my father spit out his toothpaste into the sink. I had seen him spit once while mowing the lawn when he claimed to have taken in a mouthful of gnats. But this particular spitting, the spitting done in association with the word Cacciamani, was done directly onto the cement floor of the back room of Roseman's, our family's florist shop. That floor, like everything else in my father's world, was kept meticulously clean, nary a leaf hit that floor, and so even as a child I recognized the utter seriousness of his gesture.

"Pigs," my father said, referring not to himself for what he had done to his floor but to the name that had led him to do it.

I wish I could remember the rest of this story, how the Cacciamanis had come up in the first place, but I was five. Fifty-five years later, only the highlights of such childhood memories remain.

Commentators, the people reading their opinions on the news, the people on the op-ed page of the Globe, love to say that hate is a learned thing. Children mimic the appalling racial slurs of their appalling parents, every bitter, contemptible piece of narrow-mindedness is handed down from generation to generation like so much fine family silver. I doubt it is as easy as this, as I know my own two daughters have picked up a few things in this world I will not take responsibility for, but then I think of my father and the small, shimmery pool of his spit on the floor. I hated Cacciamani with all the passionate single-mindedness of a child without even knowing what or who it was. I decided it wasa fish. My father, who loved just about everything, was not a fan of fish, and so I assumed the conversation must have gone something like this:

My mother: Howard, I got some nice fresh Cacciamani for dinner tonight.

My Father: Cacciamani! [Spit] Pigs!

For the next several years I imagined pale-fleshed, rubbery bottom feeders, the dreaded Cacciamani, snuffling around blindly at the bottom of Boston Harbor. No doubt my mother intended to fry them and serve them up in a buttery lemon sauce.

When exactly I made the transition from fish to family, from family to rival florists, I don't know (again, remember, this was the distant past). It hardly ruled my life. My path did not cross with the Cacciamanis', and when it did, they had to be pointed out to me like a patch of poison ivy I could have walked right into. We did not go to the same school. Their son went to the idol-worshiping, uniform-wearing Catholic school, while my brother and I attended perfectly normal public school. Their name was rarely spoken and when it was there was a great fanfare of unexplained wrath that I gladly participated in. We were a liberal family, aware of the recent persecution of our people and therefore unlikely to persecute others. As far as I knew, the only prejudice we had was against the Cacciamanis. It didn't extend to other Catholics or all Italians, just those people, those wretched, worthless fish. A prejudice can be a lovely thing to have, which is exactly why so many people have them in the first place. A prejudice is a simplification: Every member of this group is exactly the same and therefore I never have to think about any of them. What a time-saver! Of course, it didn't save me much time because back then there were only three Cacciamanis for me to hate, a father, a mother, and the son. I remember seeing the mother at Haymarket several times on Saturdays. She was beautiful, tall and thin, with black hair and red lips. Still, I thought it was an evil sort of beauty. Then their son grew up, married, and had six children, many of whom married and had children of their own. The Cacciamani clan grew by leaps and bounds and as far as I was concerned the whole lot of them were worthless, a fact that was reinforced when Tony Cacciamani tried to marry my daughter Sandy when they were in high school.

So that was how I came to hate Cacciamanis. Now let me tell you how I stopped. It was five years ago when I came to hate my husband, Mort. Mort ran off with Lila, the thirty-eight-year-old bouquet-grasping bridesmaid he met at a wedding while delivering flowers. Apparently he met her at several weddings. She was practically a professional bridesmaid, many friends, few dates. There went Mort and Lila. After that I knew what it was to really hate someone on your own terms, for your own reasons, which is much more poignant than hating on someone else's behalf. I didn't know I had ceased to carry an axe for the Cacciamanis. There was no conscious moment: I hate Mort and so expunge the record of the Cacciamanis. I simply hadn't thought of them for years. And then one day, while attending a seminar at the downtown Boston Sheraton called "Making Your Small Business Thrive," I practically walked into a man with the name tag romeo cacciamani. I probably would have recognized his face, but I saw the name first. I steeled myself for the great wave of fury that was surely coming. I planted my feet and took a breath, but nothing, not even a twinge. What came instead was this thought: Poor Romeo Cacciamani; his shop must be going bust, too, if he's at this thing.

He tilted his head a little and squinted at me. I think Romeo Cacciamani needed glasses. "Julie Roseman," he said, reading my tag.

And there he was, a nice-looking Italian guy sitting right at sixty. He was wearing pressed khaki pants and a white polo shirt with a sprig of chest hair flourishing at the throat. No gold chains. I was so surprised by my utter lack of hostility that I wanted to laugh. I wanted to shake his hand, and I would have except I had a Styrofoam cup of hot coffee in one hand and several folders of tax spreadsheets and workmen's comp advice in the other. "Romeo Cacciamani," I said with wonder.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted May 27, 2008

    A Fun Romance Book

    Okay, Shakespeare this is not. Given. This is a fun, light, fast read that takes you on an adventure of two 60- something lovers who must keep their desire for each other a secret due to their families' long-standing grudge. The whole time I was reading this book, it played out in my head like a movie. Barbra Streisand as Julie. Paul Sorvino as Romeo. Kathy Bates as Julie's best friend. Cameron Diaz as Plummy.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted July 10, 2008

    light yet with substance

    It's a great fun read. the characters are all lovable. Life is somewhat of a fairy tale. If you are a serious person, then lighten up and read this. this reminds me of a romantic comedy

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  • Anonymous

    Posted July 19, 2006

    Love through the ages

    The characters are incredibly believable, their age, their little imperfections endear you to them. When they find themselves in a tight spot, having to make choices for themselves that may not please certain members of their families, I was rooting for them very early on.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted May 23, 2004

    Its a wonderful story

    Its a wonderful story and I like the flower images printed on the beginning of each chapter

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  • Anonymous

    Posted November 10, 2003

    Truly Enjoyable Read

    I thoroughly enjoyed this book. Altho it doesn't offer earth-shattering plot or characterization, it brings to life a splendid late-in life romance. Forget what you know of Romeo and Juliet!! This Julie is a strong, independent woman who gets swept off her feet by her Romeo. I highly recommend this book for all who enjoy a romantic read!

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  • Anonymous

    Posted July 28, 2001

    Jeanne Ray, When Will You Write Another!!!

    'Romeo and Juliet,' Shakespeare's romantic tragedy, left readers teary-eyed and sad. Jeanne Ray's 'Julie and Romeo,' on the other hand, leaves readers laughing and cheering. While the similarities between the two exist, i.e., family feud, ill-fated love, the outcome proves to be quite different. Julie and Romeo are 60. She is divorced, he is a widower. The wisdom of life has taught them that you can set aside familial differences and not ruin your life. Unlike the bard's tale, it is not the family heads who perpetuate the feud, but rather the children. Fueled by the humorous 'anger' of a 90 year old grandmother, the Cacciamani siblings perpetuate the feud while the Roseman daughters play the 'wronged part' to the max. Just when you think Julie and Romeo don't stand a chance at happiness, the least likely character is exposed as the originator of the feud and the youngest sibling goes about setting things right. Jeanne Ray has spun a charming tale of love the second time around. Romeo seeks to recapture love while Julie is looking for that elusive 'real' love. Their story is both touching and humorous and proves that romance is not only for the young. I eagerly anticipate her next book!

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  • Posted February 27, 2010

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    What a truly delightful read

    wholesome fun and will put a smile on your face

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  • Anonymous

    Posted September 13, 2003

    How old is 60?

    How interesting to read a fun book about a couple in their 60's falling in love. Upon first beginning this story about a 60-year old Jewish florist, I was picturing her a chubby little gray haired woman. Reading on to find her sitting cross legged on the floor with her grandchildren, having the same feelings of love and lust of a younger woman, it became apparent to me that this woman was the woman of today. This was a very entertaining story, made me laugh as I turned the pages wondering all along how this love affair would finish. Looking forward to 'Eat Cake' and more by this author.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted September 5, 2003

    just love it

    many thanks to the reviewer from june,03. I read Julie and romeo in two days, and I read Diamond Promise in five days. I love both stories. I can't say enough how much I enjoy them.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted May 29, 2003

    Utterly Delightful!

    Intrigued by the title, I discovered 'Julie and Romeo' while attending a writer's conference in San Diego, CA. It is without a doubt one of the best romantic comedies I have read in ages. Nora Ephron move over, Jeanne Ray has arrived. It has all the ingredients of a first-class romantic comedy for the big screen. Can't wait!

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  • Anonymous

    Posted June 1, 2003

    I love it!

    An absolute delight. It is a very enjoyable experience to read thru this book. Interesting and likable characters, light and yet hearty, just a great fun.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted April 16, 2003

    Such an Easy read

    I wanted an easy fun get right into it book - recommended by someone working at the bookstore - this was such a wonderful book - a don't want to put down and don't want it to end -- can't wait to read more of ray's books.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted August 26, 2002

    SO ROMANTIC...

    I really enjoyed so much this book... It's very sweet, romantic, and easy to read. I didn't want it to end and it's good to know that there is no age for love!!!!

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  • Anonymous

    Posted April 24, 2002

    FUNNY BOOK

    A funny book with well-developed, likeable characters and a sweet story. Parts are laugh-out-loud funny. I recommend this book!

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  • Anonymous

    Posted February 11, 2002

    I wanted to dislike this book...

    Our book club chose this book to team up with 'Romeo & Juliet' for our February meeting. Whilst I was reading this book, I was a tad annoyed by it (the characters, their dialogue, etc. - Julie made me crazy with the whole Mort situation). I'm not a cheesy romance kind of girl... After finishing and discussing, it became really 'sweet' in my mind and I'm very glad we read it. I tried to pick up on the matching themes between the two and there are more than you'd think. A great and easy read.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted October 15, 2001

    Angel Food Cake for these Heavy Times

    Don't miss this one! Julie and Romeo really is a romance novel for people who hate romance novels. It is great fun but I still detest romance novels--except others by Ray. This gets a five-star rating because Jeanne Ray does the impossible with nothing. I can't wait to see the movie!

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  • Anonymous

    Posted August 11, 2001

    Romantic and Charming

    I can't imagine having gone all summer without reading this! I picked it up on a whim as I was sort of tired of the dysfunctional family theme. What a treat. I laughed out loud the entire way. Ray is very creative with the parody-right up to the ending. I read it in just a few hours but wished it had taken a few weeks! Just pure fun!

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  • Anonymous

    Posted July 22, 2001

    A Must Have And A Must READ!!!!!!!

    This novel was so heartwarming, it is a great novel about life and love, and is a page turner - i couldn't keep my hands off it. You really must curl up with this book and perhaps something to nibble on, you will be amazed at how quickly the time flies.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted April 30, 2001

    WOW!

    Loved the book and shared it and bought it for several of my friends. We all thought it would make a great movie. It was a fast read and I am ready for the next book. Why is it in the psychology area at Barnes & Noble? It should be parked right near the door....and it would sell out. I am so proud of you, Jeanne WIlkerson Ray....I am a fellow SVCN nurse and really enjoyed your charming book. The family dynamics were excellently displayed and most believable in your writing. Gloria, as always , was a riot.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted February 1, 2001

    Wacky, Warm, and absolutly Wonderful

    When I picked up the book, I had no idea that this love story involved two people in their 60's. Being in my 20's, I didn't think it would hold my interest. Cut to two days later, the book had been devoured. Once you start to read this book, you're not sure if Julie and Romeo are 60 or 16. I loved this light-hearted love story, involving family feuds, feisty mothers, and flowers a plenty. It makes me think that true love comes to all of us, even if we have to wait a little while for it.

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