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Celine's dad is an aging Lothario who provides companionship for women in his own age range but whose roving eye never fails to draw him toward a beautiful, sexy woman. An emotionally rich, character-driven story with a brilliant cast, it inspires hope and promises new beginnings. By completing your purchase, you agree to Audible's Conditions of Use and authorise Audible to charge your designated card or any other card on file.
So much covered, from alcoholism to estrangement, and how hiding your feelings can be the worst thing you could ever do.Very often, secondary characters are just that but — in this book — they provide, sometimes much needed, comedic relief and help the plot glide along nicely (which helped when it needed a bit of a push). She slept with a married man, Patrick, had 4 days together but that didn't stop her to shamefully ask him to leave his wife for her. We are presented with an examination of what true love is – romantic love or lust or the love measured in kindness, respect and time. It never tries to smooth over the raw nature of the circumstances, even when Patrick and Celine re-unite. The romance is heart-wrenching but despite everything, you find yourself rooting for Eleanor and Fin from the beginning.
About the Author: Emily Houghton is an Essex girl at heart, but now spends most of her time between London and Suffolk. Two single friends, most likely surrounded by an ocean of couples taking the concept of PDA to new extremes, look at each other and decide, yeah, OK, why not? When, by an incredible set of circumstances, she sees Patrick again while visiting London with Mike she's thrown for a loop and suddenly her whole life veers off track. Eleanor thinks aloud how it can be interpreted as flowers, the colour blue, or not wanting to be forgotten by someone. I could sense Celine’s impossible decision and her residual feelings for both men, BUT I WANTED MORE!Read all Handsome and stylish Victor is reunited by chance with David, his first love, fifteen years after the last time they saw each other. There are a plethora of side characters that enrich this storyline with complex and bittersweet moments, but also sweet and endearing ones. Whilst it didn’t always make the reading easy, or that enjoyable, these serious issues were dealt with sensitively and it made the book feel more authentic and emotional. With some more serious subject matter mixed in with the storyline, this is a story that came across as highly believable. I felt that Celine was unsure of the direction of her love life, unsure of whether the divorce was the right wait to go and unsure of revisiting the relationship with her first love.
But now with a dying parent, Fin comes back into Eleanor’s life just as she’s moving on from a painful breakup. She's got the guy who has loved her and is there for her, and the father of Amy, and then Patrick, who was a great first love, but lives a completely different life. Stubborn in her ways and obsessively planning her life you get the sense that she needs control and as we learn more about her you can understand why. They don’t seem to be able to talk to each other about anything, other than via big dramatic scenes when they are drunk, angry or grief-stricken.I loved Before I Saw You, and was thrilled to be asked to review the next release from Emily Houghton, Last Time We Met. Celine and her exhusband Mike are now officially divorced except Celine keeps wondering if she made a mistake letting Mike go. Even though there were moments I was shaking my head at one or both of them, Houghton has again given us two characters we can’t help but root for — both as individuals and together, I think.
As a single 31-year-old woman, who is one of three still without a partner in her friendship group, does the prospect of such an arrangement appeal? She has a curiosity for life and has a passion for all things well-being, one day hoping to create her own retreat space with a lot of dogs! i also enjoyed the development between the main characters but i just wish that we saw more of them, like towards the end.
One line stuck out as being out of place, purely because when a British character visits Canada and describes the temperature as being "in the nineties", it makes no sense given that no one in that scenario, including the British author, would use Fahrenheit. I cannot wait to see what Emily produces next, this is another author that has made it to my watch list!
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