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To Love Again
Karen Wainwright, married and the mother of two teenagers, reenters the nursing profession by taking a job at a women's clinic.
Her first day on the job is unusual, to say the least. Caught in a cross-fire created by anti-abortion forces, she is arrested, along with the clinic director Dr. Joanna Jordon, and taken to jail.
To the horror of friends and family, Karen's arrest is recorded by television cameras. Quit immediately, orders husband Phillip. But Karen refuses.
And so begins her relationship with Joanna...
Joanna is undergoing her own conflicts with long-term partner Vicki, who has lost patience with Joanna's pro-choice activism and its perilous presence in their lives.
Friendship between Karen and Joanna becomes passionate attraction. But both women have carefully constructed worlds to lose: Joanna her long-term relationship with Vicki, and Karen her home and children.
Will Karen and Joanna find the courage To Love Again?
Her first day on the job is unusual, to say the least. Caught in a cross-fire created by anti-abortion forces, she is arrested, along with the clinic director Dr. Joanna Jordon, and taken to jail.
To the horror of friends and family, Karen's arrest is recorded by television cameras. Quit immediately, orders husband Phillip. But Karen refuses.
And so begins her relationship with Joanna...
Joanna is undergoing her own conflicts with long-term partner Vicki, who has lost patience with Joanna's pro-choice activism and its perilous presence in their lives.
Friendship between Karen and Joanna becomes passionate attraction. But both women have carefully constructed worlds to lose: Joanna her long-term relationship with Vicki, and Karen her home and children.
Will Karen and Joanna find the courage To Love Again?
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June 24, 2022
Karen recently started volunteering at an abortion clinic after spending the last 16 years as a stay-at-home mom. On her first day of work, she's arrested with the head doctor Joanna, and they start forming a relationship.
I really didn't like this book. I think its concepts were really interesting, two women in rough relationships starting a new life, especially how Karen has spent the last couple years in a straight relationship. She even has kids! However, the book is too short to have any sort of real investment in the characters, making everything going from one thing to the next without any real tension.
I also just think that the side characters are so one note and boring. They are meant to make the relationship work, so that when Joanna cheats on her partner or when Karen has no real reaction to being abandoned by her kids that she wanted to stay with, there are no questions as to why we need to be rooting for them. There's no complexities in this situation that needed to explore complex problems
I really didn't like this book. I think its concepts were really interesting, two women in rough relationships starting a new life, especially how Karen has spent the last couple years in a straight relationship. She even has kids! However, the book is too short to have any sort of real investment in the characters, making everything going from one thing to the next without any real tension.
I also just think that the side characters are so one note and boring. They are meant to make the relationship work, so that when Joanna cheats on her partner or when Karen has no real reaction to being abandoned by her kids that she wanted to stay with, there are no questions as to why we need to be rooting for them. There's no complexities in this situation that needed to explore complex problems
April 13, 2020
Karen has started volunteering at a woman clinic to get back into her nursing field after being a stay at home mother for her sons. Joanna is the head doctor that is having a failing relationship. These two women have an instant connection that makes me want to reconsider their future.
The writing is easy and understandable. Erotic at times and meaning full to see what one will do for love. I found that the characters at the time were strict all good or all bad being the protagonist Joanna and Karen's lovers are. I liked Nacy and her words of wisdom as well ask Karen's therapist.
Overall quick read that was enjoyable.
The writing is easy and understandable. Erotic at times and meaning full to see what one will do for love. I found that the characters at the time were strict all good or all bad being the protagonist Joanna and Karen's lovers are. I liked Nacy and her words of wisdom as well ask Karen's therapist.
Overall quick read that was enjoyable.
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