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Emergency: A Marriage Worth Keeping
Emergency: A Marriage Worth Keeping by Carol Marinelli released on May 10, 2005 is available now for purchase.
192 pages, Mass Market Paperback
First published January 1, 2005
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About the author
Carol Marinelli
1,415 books450 followersCarol Marinelli was born in England to Scottish parents, then emigrated to Australia, where there are loads of Scottish and English people who did exactly the same, so she’s very at home there.
She lives in the outer suburbs of Melbourne—pretty much in her car, driving her three children to their various commitments.
Carol writes for the Harlequin Presents and Medical lines and she also writes contemporary women's fiction (with a dark twist).
When she's not writing she's reading, when she's not reading she's writing.
She lives in the outer suburbs of Melbourne—pretty much in her car, driving her three children to their various commitments.
Carol writes for the Harlequin Presents and Medical lines and she also writes contemporary women's fiction (with a dark twist).
When she's not writing she's reading, when she's not reading she's writing.
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October 10, 2019
Sweet marriage-in-trouble story between a Spanish doctor and Australian nurse. They both specialized in emergency medicine. They’ve been married for 8 years and have twin boys. Two years before hero was in a car accident with their youngest son, an infant. The infant was killed and hero was injured. Since then, hero has been shutdown and heroine has been at loose ends at home with the twins at school all day.
The story opens with the heroine at a divorce lawyer. The lawyer doesn’t believe the heroine really wants a divorce and tells her to take a month to think about it.
The heroine has fought to resume her job as emergency room nurse while the twins are in school. She will be working with her husband and another disgruntled doctor who didn’t get the consultancy position.
The H/h begin to have a new appreciation of each as they work together.
I enjoyed their dynamic as partners at work and how it contrasted with their dysfunction at home. It highlighted their competence and empathy and just what kind of toll grief had taken on them.
They are on the path to reconciliation when disgruntled doctor tells the hero that heroine has been to a divorce lawyer. Hero feels betrayed and takes steps to move out of the house. Heroine knows he’ll never forgive her.
Then heroine is in a grisly accident
While I understand the symmetry of having both the H/h in a traffic accident, it seemed a bit convenient/contrived for forgiveness all around. But I guess in the over-the-top world of Emergency medicine nothing short of a bomb going off is going to get these characters’ attention.
There is a sweet epilogue with the hero's and heroine's extended families all gathered in Spain.
The story opens with the heroine at a divorce lawyer. The lawyer doesn’t believe the heroine really wants a divorce and tells her to take a month to think about it.
The heroine has fought to resume her job as emergency room nurse while the twins are in school. She will be working with her husband and another disgruntled doctor who didn’t get the consultancy position.
The H/h begin to have a new appreciation of each as they work together.
I enjoyed their dynamic as partners at work and how it contrasted with their dysfunction at home. It highlighted their competence and empathy and just what kind of toll grief had taken on them.
They are on the path to reconciliation when disgruntled doctor tells the hero that heroine has been to a divorce lawyer. Hero feels betrayed and takes steps to move out of the house. Heroine knows he’ll never forgive her.
Then heroine is in a grisly accident
While I understand the symmetry of having both the H/h in a traffic accident, it seemed a bit convenient/contrived for forgiveness all around. But I guess in the over-the-top world of Emergency medicine nothing short of a bomb going off is going to get these characters’ attention.
There is a sweet epilogue with the hero's and heroine's extended families all gathered in Spain.
October 10, 2019
Lovely second chance story between a couple that needs to re-connect as they deal with the grief of losing a child.
No OW / OM complications.
No OW / OM complications.
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March 19, 2024
Salvador & Isla Ramirez' 9 year marriage is in crisis. 14 months ago their 4 year old son Casey was killed in a car smash & Sav injured. They also have 7 year old twins, Luke & Harry. ED consultant Sav refuses to talk about his feelings. At her wits' end & worried about the effect the impasse is having on their sons, RN Isla consults a divorce lawyer & returns to work part-time, in Sav's Melbourne ED, so that she will have an income if they separate. She discovers that, at work, he's the man he used to be, not the taciturn stranger she lives with. Despite initially opposing Isla's return to work, Sav re-learns to respect her nursing abilities.
They're working towards a reconciliation when a jealous colleague reveals to Sav that he saw Isla at the divorce lawyer's. Feeling betrayed, his pride wounded, Sav moves out. We also learn that, following Casey's death, Isla was almost prostrate with grief & it was Sav who kept the household functioning. Following advice to Isla from her best friend & something Harry says to Sav, they're about to start talking when events go full circle ...
This is a moving story about the impact of grief on a relationship. Neither party is without fault but their reactions are understandable. The ending is contrived but it works for me.
They're working towards a reconciliation when a jealous colleague reveals to Sav that he saw Isla at the divorce lawyer's. Feeling betrayed, his pride wounded, Sav moves out. We also learn that, following Casey's death, Isla was almost prostrate with grief & it was Sav who kept the household functioning. Following advice to Isla from her best friend & something Harry says to Sav, they're about to start talking when events go full circle ...
This is a moving story about the impact of grief on a relationship. Neither party is without fault but their reactions are understandable. The ending is contrived but it works for me.
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