If You Needed Me - Lowry, Lee
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When Jenny Longworth offers aid and comfort to David Perry, a long-ago college sweetheart who recently lost his French wife, Sandrine, to cancer, their old passion is revived, creating a gauntlet of social and moral conflicts. Against cautionary counsel, Jenny disrupts her life in Boston and moves to Europe to be at David's side as he attempts to put his world back together. While some of David's friends welcome Jenny, others view her with hostility. Struggling with their own grief, David's children, Marc and Delphine, react to Jenny's presence with confusion and ambivalence, leaving David and…mehr

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When Jenny Longworth offers aid and comfort to David Perry, a long-ago college sweetheart who recently lost his French wife, Sandrine, to cancer, their old passion is revived, creating a gauntlet of social and moral conflicts. Against cautionary counsel, Jenny disrupts her life in Boston and moves to Europe to be at David's side as he attempts to put his world back together. While some of David's friends welcome Jenny, others view her with hostility. Struggling with their own grief, David's children, Marc and Delphine, react to Jenny's presence with confusion and ambivalence, leaving David and Jenny in a quandary as to the future of their relationship. A compelling story of loss, loyalty, and love spanning two continents and four decades, If You Needed Me reminds us that passion is not the sole province of the young and that love is not for the faint of heart. Author Lee Lowry weaves a tale that confronts the challenges of late love and second marriage with honesty and accuracy, and the characters provide a rich, multi-layered examination of the nature of love with all its pain and beauty.
Autorenporträt
Lee Lowry is a former community activist and political consultant. Like her fictional counterpart, Lowry gave up a successful career in Boston and moved to Europe to help an old love cope with his grief after the loss of his wife to cancer. IF YOU NEEDED ME is the first book of a trilogy inspired by Lowry's personal experiences as an expatriate, second wife and step-parent.Lowry lived in Switzerland for seven years before retiring with her husband to California in 2008. "We were planning to back to Massachusetts, but we quickly realized, for reasons of space and physical layout, that my home in Boston was not well suited for a retired couple. Its shortcomings gave us a remarkable opportunity, motivating us to define together the ideal house and ideal community - not his, not mine, but ours.