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Chargement... Ghosts of Winterpar Rebecca S. Buck
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Can Ros Wynne, who has lost everything she thought defined her, find her true life--and her true love--surrounded by the lingering history of the once-grand Winter Manor? When Ros unexpectedly inherits Winter Manor on the condition that she oversee the restoration of the remote and dilapidated house, it seems the perfect place for her to retreat from her recently failed relationship, the death of her mother, and the loss of her job. But Winter Manor is not entirely at rest. The echoes of its past reach forward into the present, and Ros's life is perceptibly shaped by the lives--and loves--of the people who inhabited those rooms and corridors in the centuries before her. Then Anna arrives. The architect--with her designer clothes, hot car, and air of supreme professionalism--is at first an unwelcome, if necessary, intrusion. But as Ros learns Anna's truths, she finds solace from her past losses in their developing intimacy. And when their love is threatened, Ros must decide whether her own ghosts will forever define her, or if she can embrace her life for what it is--past, present, and future. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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I know it's ridiculous, but I also know what is real and what is not and that, for the time I'm reading a book, I borrow the love.
The funny thing is, though, what the two people share in this story seems totally feasible to me. They face emotional warts, worries, battles and love and it feels real, so real. As Rebecca S. Book explains, she sees the "importance of fiction for representing the human experience."
At the heart of Ros and Anna's situation is the uncertainty of whether two emotionally insecure people (one obviously so and the other hiding her fears behind extreme detachment) can make a go of it. Ros thinks about Anna:
I’m awful at making it clear how I feel, so perhaps it was my fault that she’d not understood me.
Not too long after that, Anna confesses:
"Because you handle life so well. I don’t really know why you think I have anything for you. It’s not about what you can give me, Ros. It’s just about you. You’re beautiful, you’re witty, you’re perceptive and sensitive, you’re brave, and you’re a bloody good kisser."
Ghosts Of Winter is one of the best love stories I've read in ages because it rings more real than most from its genre do and because the two women are so likable, if in need of some enlightenment about each other.
Another terrific thing about the book is how every so often there are chapters featuring other lovelorn couples who have lived in Winter Manor throughout the centuries. These couples aren't so lucky in love, though, with one from the 1920s especially doomed to silently love each other instead of getting together and living happily ever after:
"Do you know, Edith, I think love can exist, even when it’s not acted upon,” Evadne said, daring to express what lay in her heart.
I don't know why, exactly, but that's my favorite line in the book. (