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200 Harley Street #3
The Proud Italian
Top-notch surgeons Rafael and Abbie de Luca were once the Hunter Clinic’s ‘dream-team’. But when their baby daughter fell ill, their idyllic life came crashing down.
Now reunited, it’s clear to this proud Italian and his wife that their time apart has changed them – but can they rekindle their once bright and burning passion?
185 pages, Kindle Edition
First published January 1, 2014
About the author
Alison Roberts
725 books74 followersI was born and raised in Dunedin, New Zealand, but had my first year of school in London, UK and the second in Washington DC. I became a primary school teacher and began writing when I was living in Glasgow, Scotland for two years and teachers were all on strike. My first novel was a medical thriller with a good dash of romance thrown in.
I have now written well over a hundred romance novels with more than a dash of medicine thrown in. I love weaving the emotional journey of a love story through the background drama the medical world can provide. I also love the rabbit holes I can go down in the name of research.
Above all, I love romance. And a happy ending!
I have now written well over a hundred romance novels with more than a dash of medicine thrown in. I love weaving the emotional journey of a love story through the background drama the medical world can provide. I also love the rabbit holes I can go down in the name of research.
Above all, I love romance. And a happy ending!
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April 17, 2015
This was written well and definitely had some touching parts. There were plenty of emotions (and both sides were felt), some highs and lows, some really tough decisions and a great HEA. I enjoyed reading this and was aggravated, happy, sad, exasperated but smiling at the end. Good for the chick-flick kinda mood and something to curl up with. Enjoy
December 28, 2015
I am sorry to say that I don't think I read the same book as everyone else. I did not care for this at all but I did finish the book.
First and foremost, if you have a sick child, no matter how gravely ill they are, you do everything in your power to give that child a chance at life...period...exclamation mark!!! Isn't that what most all parents would do? Would they not do whatever that child needed to survive?...or would the husband tell his wife that she was not allowed to travel to the US to try an experimental treatment that offered their baby daughter a small chance at being cured. The physician husband thinks the baby will suffer from the treatments and that it isn't fair...so just let the disease take her, don't put her through any discomfort trying to save her life. He also tells her that if she chooses to go against his demands that their marriage is over. That's a whole bunch of bull in my opinion.
The book is written in an odd manner. Many sentences ending in 'doesn't he?' 'didn't she?' and not just a few times but all the way through the book. And then there are the husbands thoughts, the husbands thoughts about what he thinks his wife is thinking while she is in thought, the wife's thoughts and the wife's thoughts about what she thinks her husband is thinking while he sits in thought. It was all just too much. There were times they acted like they were immature college aged kids instead of probably mid to late thirties. If you consider the four years of college, another four at med school, surgery residency a minimum of five years they would be a minimum of thirty-one years old when they completed residency and then the author spoke of all the experience they had.
I'm glad this was borrowed from a local library. It was not worth my time and I cannot recommend it.
First and foremost, if you have a sick child, no matter how gravely ill they are, you do everything in your power to give that child a chance at life...period...exclamation mark!!! Isn't that what most all parents would do? Would they not do whatever that child needed to survive?...or would the husband tell his wife that she was not allowed to travel to the US to try an experimental treatment that offered their baby daughter a small chance at being cured. The physician husband thinks the baby will suffer from the treatments and that it isn't fair...so just let the disease take her, don't put her through any discomfort trying to save her life. He also tells her that if she chooses to go against his demands that their marriage is over. That's a whole bunch of bull in my opinion.
The book is written in an odd manner. Many sentences ending in 'doesn't he?' 'didn't she?' and not just a few times but all the way through the book. And then there are the husbands thoughts, the husbands thoughts about what he thinks his wife is thinking while she is in thought, the wife's thoughts and the wife's thoughts about what she thinks her husband is thinking while he sits in thought. It was all just too much. There were times they acted like they were immature college aged kids instead of probably mid to late thirties. If you consider the four years of college, another four at med school, surgery residency a minimum of five years they would be a minimum of thirty-one years old when they completed residency and then the author spoke of all the experience they had.
I'm glad this was borrowed from a local library. It was not worth my time and I cannot recommend it.
September 4, 2016
I received this book as an e-ARC free from Netgalley. Below is my review.
This is a deeply emotional book, dealing with difficult life and death issues and situations in the medical community. But it is also a powerful story of love, forgiveness, and learning to be intimate.
Rafael and Abbie are the dream team", a pair of surgeons who work in near perfect concert and who are very in love. How could anything possibly go wrong? But, within weeks of their baby's birth, she was very sick. With a final ultimatum ringing in her ears, Abbie walks away with their daughter to try an experimental treatment.
I liked how the author didn't allow blame to be apportioned to one or the other. It would have been so easy to simply say: "Of course they should do everything possible no matter how risky to save their baby and of course Rafael was wrong." But understanding how and why and the greater issues and bigger picture really added a depth to this that so easily could have a glossed over issue.
I liked both characters, with their uncertainties and fears so open and obvious. The dual POV worked very well and ensured that both sides of the fight were adequately addressed.
There's a lot packed into this novella. I'm impressed."
This is a deeply emotional book, dealing with difficult life and death issues and situations in the medical community. But it is also a powerful story of love, forgiveness, and learning to be intimate.
Rafael and Abbie are the dream team", a pair of surgeons who work in near perfect concert and who are very in love. How could anything possibly go wrong? But, within weeks of their baby's birth, she was very sick. With a final ultimatum ringing in her ears, Abbie walks away with their daughter to try an experimental treatment.
I liked how the author didn't allow blame to be apportioned to one or the other. It would have been so easy to simply say: "Of course they should do everything possible no matter how risky to save their baby and of course Rafael was wrong." But understanding how and why and the greater issues and bigger picture really added a depth to this that so easily could have a glossed over issue.
I liked both characters, with their uncertainties and fears so open and obvious. The dual POV worked very well and ensured that both sides of the fight were adequately addressed.
There's a lot packed into this novella. I'm impressed."
May 29, 2014
The Proud Italian by Alison Roberts is a 200 Harley Street book. It is the continuation of the story of the de Lucas.
Abbie de Luca has returned to London with their daughter, Ella. She and Ella have been in the United States for three months where Ella was undergoing experimental treatment of her life threatening disease. Abbie had taken her there despite the vehement disapproval of her husband, Rafael. Abbie is very concerned that her marriage might be over since she defied her husband. However, Ella stands a good chance of staying well and being in remission. Was it worth the cost?
Rafael de Luca stayed home and practiced his reconstruction skills while his wife and daughter were an ocean away. He regretted his hasty last words to his wife but his pride would not allow him to apologize so he put his all into medicine. He feared never seeing his daughter alive once more and that he may have actually lost his wife as well.
Add to this, the possibility of their losing their touch as the “dream team” of surgeons at the Hunter Clinic. Can they overcome all the challenges headed their way or will they split?
Abbie de Luca has returned to London with their daughter, Ella. She and Ella have been in the United States for three months where Ella was undergoing experimental treatment of her life threatening disease. Abbie had taken her there despite the vehement disapproval of her husband, Rafael. Abbie is very concerned that her marriage might be over since she defied her husband. However, Ella stands a good chance of staying well and being in remission. Was it worth the cost?
Rafael de Luca stayed home and practiced his reconstruction skills while his wife and daughter were an ocean away. He regretted his hasty last words to his wife but his pride would not allow him to apologize so he put his all into medicine. He feared never seeing his daughter alive once more and that he may have actually lost his wife as well.
Add to this, the possibility of their losing their touch as the “dream team” of surgeons at the Hunter Clinic. Can they overcome all the challenges headed their way or will they split?
November 7, 2022
Beautifully written and executed, although a much more sensitive and painful read than the usual Mills and Boon.
AR highlights a truly awful dilemma that faces many people, not just parents of sick babies. How far do you inflict painful treatment on a sick person before you say - there's no hope, that's enough!
That's the dilemma that faced these parents and which tore them apart. To see that the treatment had succeeded and then watch the damaged couple try to come back together was really well done. I felt for both of them and was delighted when they found their way back to each other. Five stars for this fabulous, emotionally satisfying read.
AR highlights a truly awful dilemma that faces many people, not just parents of sick babies. How far do you inflict painful treatment on a sick person before you say - there's no hope, that's enough!
That's the dilemma that faced these parents and which tore them apart. To see that the treatment had succeeded and then watch the damaged couple try to come back together was really well done. I felt for both of them and was delighted when they found their way back to each other. Five stars for this fabulous, emotionally satisfying read.
September 24, 2014
200 Harley Street: ISBN 978-0-263-90763-6
I won the four (2-in-1) paperback books from Lynne Marshall giveaway. Thank you so much.
This is a story about how the parents will proceed when a traumatic situation may very well take the life of their baby daughter. Rafael and Abbie de Luca, both surgeons, are at odds with each other; one wants to try a new treatment in New York, the other doesn't want to put their daughter through it.
This is an interesting, well-written, meaningful, emotional, engaging story, that kept my interest to the end. **Recommend**
I won the four (2-in-1) paperback books from Lynne Marshall giveaway. Thank you so much.
This is a story about how the parents will proceed when a traumatic situation may very well take the life of their baby daughter. Rafael and Abbie de Luca, both surgeons, are at odds with each other; one wants to try a new treatment in New York, the other doesn't want to put their daughter through it.
This is an interesting, well-written, meaningful, emotional, engaging story, that kept my interest to the end. **Recommend**
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