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tessisreading2's review
4.0
Sweet, gentle romance. Kate is a widow still mourning the death of her photographer husband Stuart; Paul is Stuart's best friend, who has been dutifully showing up every month to take Kate's son, his godson, out on excursions. Kate thinks Paul doesn't like her, but as everyone else knows and the reader quickly realizes, Paul's been in love with her for a very long time. Kate's lost most of the people she's cared about in her life and the conflict here is really just whether Kate's going to be able to trust again. The characters were well-drawn, Kate especially - she's realistically prickly and her background was realistically awful without becoming Dickensian; it's easy to see how she turned into the person she is, and to sympathize with her feelings while acknowledging the ways in which she needs to find the strength to change.
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