Review: A Love Story--But Not a Romance Novel
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 03 16, 2011
I enjoyed this story of first love, marital love, family love and new love.  March and Mike fall in love as teenagers in the late 1960's  They lived in San Francisco and while they later became part of the prosperous upper-middle class, they never lost the bohemian edge.  The story is told from March's point of view, in the first person, and Jill Barnett really makes you feel like you are there listening to her tell her story.  I hated to see the depths to which she sunk after tragedy, but cheered for her as she slowly got her life together again.While there is romance in the story, the book is not a romance; rather it is March's story, and March is a woman who loves--particularly her husband and children.  If such things are important to you, she is a woman of no discernible religious beliefs and while not graphic, the book does include bedroom scenes in which the couple is not married.I'd like to thank Bell Bridge Books for sending me a review copy of Bridge to Happiness.  Grade:  B