Review: A poignant love story
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 10 6, 2013
I enjoyed "The Girl in Room Fourteen" very much. It's a poignant story of a love lost and a woman waiting for years in the hope of regaining that love. Cecile is a memorable character, a French girl who had a brief affair with the mysterious Italian Roberto, then raising their daughter and creating the business that she and Roberto had planned to build together. Years go by with no word from Roberto, but Cecile clings to the hope that they will be reunited.This was my introduction to the author's work, but I'm impressed with her fiction. Her characters were realistic flesh-and-blood people. I felt a lot of empathy for the longsuffering Cecile as she helplessly waited for Roberto to return, or at least to get news of him and why he disappeared from her life. The story had a plausible ending which mixed sadness with hope for the future.