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| Accent Press 2014 |
Following her husband’s untimely
death in Afghanistan, Kate Hemingway’s life is broken beyond repair, but the
need to keep her young son’s life stable and secure gives her a reason to carry
on. In the wake of this tragedy, Paul, her husband’s best friend, continues to
keep contact with his godson, George, and yet, Paul has always been aloof and
slightly reserved around Kate, and, as such, the relationship between them is rather
strained. Helping other fractured lives helps Kate comes to terms with her loss
and when she accompanies a group of troubled teenage girls to the Yorkshire
Moors, she is unprepared, when Paul, in his role as newspaper reporter, asks to
join the group. What then follows is a touching and beautifully written story
about the power and healing nature of love.
The author’s light and easy style
of narrative captures perfectly the emotional insecurity of someone devastated
by loss, and of the indecision and uncertainty of growing sexual attraction. Kate’s
struggle for control is something everyone can identify with, and her emotional
journey is expressed with both warmth and understanding. The controlled passion
between Kate and Paul is quite understated but no less powerful because of that, and their burgeoning relationship is a real joy to read.
There is a lovely tenderness to
the narrative which I found rather refreshing, as all too often love stories can spend far too much time in the bedroom. In A Way From Heart to Heart, I enjoyed getting to know all about the
characters; about the life experiences which had shaped their personalities and
of their weaknesses and strengths. Of course, this is a love story, so it helps
enormously that both Kate and Paul are attractive and likeable, and you can’t
help but hope that everything works out for them.
I read this book almost in one sitting;
it’s a great book to curl up with, preferably with
a cup of tea and a packet of chocolate biscuits close at hand.
Come back on Monday 9th February when Helena will be talking to me about
A Way From Heart to Heart
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I found your blog via a tweet about the above review, and having read it, I'll definitely be buying Helena's book for my holiday reading. This looks like the place to find out about my kind of good reads and I'm just off to explore the blog more.
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