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Summary: Lovely
Review: This is a wonderful book. It made me cry,yet it was so uplifting. Much in the style of Elizabeth Berg (Never Change).It is the story of three lost people who find each other. Blair is dying of cancer. Amanda is her 16 year old daughter struggling with loss and then there is Luke the old high school friend who was nothing to her then and becomes everything to her now. I highly reccomend this book. Good story. Loved it.
Rating:
Summary: Lovely
Review: This is a wonderful book. It made me cry,yet it was so uplifting. Much in the style of Elizabeth Berg (Never Change). It is the story of three lost people who find each other. Blair is dying of cancer. Amanda is her 16 year old daughter struggling with loss and then there is Luke the old high school friend who was nothing to her then and becomes everything to her now. I highly reccomend this book. Good story. Loved it.
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Summary: Very good book by a promising new writer....
Review: This novel pulled me in right away. Ellen Sussman writes very delicately, enticing the reader with well written characters and a funky location (San Francisco) for the setting. Blair is somewhat hardened and anti-love except for the intense love she has for her independent daughter, Amanda. Luke has been burned by his beautiful wife, Emily, and is not looking for a relationship when he gets a chance at the 'real thing' with a dying Blair. What happens when Emily wants Luke back? Will Blair let her walls down and let Luke love her? How does Amanda handle a man in her life after having her mother to herself for her 16 years? In the spirit of Elizabeth Berg & Anita Shreve, this book is very good and I recommend it to people who are interesting in reading a gripping book by a new novelist.
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Summary: A powerful story of sadness and redemption.
Review: Ultimately a moral tale of deep spirtual and emotional impact. The three principal characters, Blair, Amanda and Luke are each faced with defining choices: Blair how to provide for Amanda, the sixteen year old daughter that is the center of her life as Blair is dying. Amanda whether to try to insulate and protect her mom (and their relationship) during the last year of life or to allow Blair to explore love that she has forgone to raise her daughter. Luke to return to the prodigal wife who reappears with her own compelling secret, or to immerse himsef in a love that has been 25 years in the making. In the end there are no miracles but there is hope for lives well lived. Sussman's clear and unsentimental prose, wonderfully drawn characters (including a prescient pooch) and sense of compassion for the flaws of her three protagonists make this a must read for the season.
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Summary: A Terrific Read!
Review: What a marvelous book! "On A Night Like This" is anything but expected. The characters are real and heartfelt - complicated people who are fighting their way through a painful crucible. I cheered for them while feeling their sorrows. The style of "On A Night Like This" soars above - way above - the romance and chick lit it's been compared to. The mother-daughter struggles of Blair and Amanda are familiar enough, but Ellen Sussman infuses this relationship with some wonderfully wise twists. And Luke, while he earns his stripes as a jerk at times, makes for a worthy counterpoint to Blair's unvarnished emotion. The beautifully drawn California setting further enhances this sad but enveloping novel. This is a terrific read.
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Summary: Wonderful debut novel
Review: What do you do when you meet Mr. Right, at the wrong time? No, make that at the worst possible time. Blair Clemens is dying of cancer. At this point, all she wants to do is lose herself in her work, and her love of her sixteen-year-old daughter, Amanda. When Luke Bellingham enters her life, a committed relationship is the last thing on her mind. Yet his vulnerability, his concern for her, and his irresistible dog break down her defenses, and she finds herself falling head over heels in love for the first time in her forty-two years, and for the last time in her life. Luke, on the other hand, has problems of his own. His wife left him after years of marriage, without a word of explanation. Now, Luke is heartbroken. He needs to find her, and he needs answers that only she can provide. When he finds himself drawn to Blair, he realizes that the time will come when he'll have to make a choice between the two women who are now irrevocably a part of his life. Written in a warm and hopeful tone, ON A NIGHT LIKE THIS isn't your usual tearjerker. Sure, you'll cry. And you'll definitely laugh at Blair's antics as you read along as well. But most of all, you'll be intrigued, and eager to keep turning pages. Ellen Sussman's writing style is quick, fast, and deceptively simple. Before you know it, you'll be swept away in the world she's created, involved in the character's lives, and eager to know what happens next. Brilliant characterization and lasting themes, such as mother-daughter relationships and empty marriages, make this debut novel stand out from the rest.
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Summary: First-rate read!
Review: Without an ounce of sentimentality, Ellen Sussman uses gorgeous prose and a tightly-woven plot to tell a terrific love story. I couldn't put it down. Funny, feisty, self-effacing Blair Clemens is a character you can't help but root for. And her life story shows us that there's hope for love and redemption for each of us. Bravo!
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Summary: Awful, Just Awful
Review: Worst book I've read in a long time. I couldn't even finish it. The characters are so unbelievable and incredibly unlikeable. The situations are ridiculous. The whole thing just made me cringe while I was reading it. I had to throw the book out. I don't recommend it.
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