Ordinary Love

Ordinary Love

Paperback
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A page-turning, irresistible novel of class, ambition, and love, this is the breathtaking story of a woman risking everything for a second chance at the one who got away • "A brilliant examination of queerness, friendship, motherhood, longing and ambition. It’s funny and moving and sexy. Above all, it’s a stunning love story.”—J. Courtney Sullivan, bestselling author of The Cliffs

Emily has, by all appearances, a perfect life: a townhouse on Manhattan’s Upper East Side, two healthy children, and a husband who showers her with attention. But the truth is more complicated: Emily’s marriage is in trouble, her relationship with her parents is fraught, and she is still nursing a heartbreak from long ago. When Emily runs into her high school girlfriend at a cocktail party, that heartbreak comes roaring back. But Gen Hall is no longer the lanky, hungry kid with holes in her shoes who Emily loved in her youth. Instead, Gen is now a famous Olympic athlete with sponsorship deals and a string of high-profile ex-girlfriends.

Emily and Gen circle one another cautiously, drawn together by a magnetic attraction and scarred by their shared history. Once upon a time, Gen knew everything about Emily. And yet, she still abandoned her. Can Emily trust Gen again? Can they forgive each other for the mistakes they made in their past? Should Emily risk her children, her privacy, and the fragile peace she has found to be with a woman she loved long ago?

A sweeping romance, Ordinary Love is the beautiful, wrenching, completely seductive story of two people trying to forge a path toward hope, bound by a love they discovered when they were too young to understand its power.

Book Information

Main Genre
Novels
Sub Genre
Classics
Format
Paperback
Pages
349
Price
19.00 €

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Eine Geschichte mit sehr gut ausgearbeiteten Charakteren, einer Liebesgeschichte, die einen langen Bogen spannt, und einer sehr ungesunden Beziehungsdynamik, die hauptsächlich von einem Hauptcharakter frustrierend, anstrengend und wütend machend gemacht wird. Ich mochte die Geschichte um Emily, Jack und Gen sehr gerne. Es war wirklich eindrücklich zu sehen, wie sich über Jahre hinweg anfangs noch zu vernachlässigenden Verhaltensmustern eine Dynamik und ein Machtgefälle aufbauen kann, das einem beim Lesen den Atem abschnürt. Die Furcht und das Gefühl von Hilflosigkeit und Ausgeliefert sein von Emily konnte ich wirklich mitspüren und es war toll, ihr dabei zuzusehen, wie sie langsam wieder zu sich selbst findet. Da diese eine Figur so unerträglich war, hätte ich mir irgendwie bloß gewünscht, dass der Fokus mehr auf der wirklichen Liebegeschichte gelegen hätte, die mir ein bisschen zu kurz kam.

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