Review: A Bittersweet Love Story
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 10 8, 2012
This is one of the most realistic romances I've ever read.  It touches on the death of a child and the toll it can take on a marriage.  It touches on the care of Alzheimers' patients.  Dealing with the care of a sick child, not to mention infidelity.  How could this be a romance?  Well how could it not?  Romances are relationship stories and relationships can have problems as well as emotionally satisfying moments.It's Tess and Fletch's reunion story.  Their marriage was unable to survive the aftermath of their son a decade earlier.  They retreated from each other, divorced and buried themselves in work - his work as a doctor, hers as a nurse.But a family problem has thrown them together again.  Now it's time to face up to what happened back then.  Face it, heal and move on - preferably together.As in all romances, when the healing power of love gets a chance to do its work, the results are magic.I approached this book with trepidation.  I did not think it would work as a romance.  But surprisingly for me at least, it did.  Stories about relationships, stories about life, these are stories worth reading.  Especially if a message of hope is there.  And yes, it is there