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The Donor
When you meet the love of your life, the last thing you expect is your sister luring him away.
Clare faces this scenario when her sister, Isabel, marries singer and guitarist Ross Tyler. To make things even worse, Ross hits the big time, makes a fortune and moves to France with his family.
But when tragedy strikes, Ross and Clare are forced to revisit their common past, one which they must try to put behind them for Isabel's sake.
Clare faces this scenario when her sister, Isabel, marries singer and guitarist Ross Tyler. To make things even worse, Ross hits the big time, makes a fortune and moves to France with his family.
But when tragedy strikes, Ross and Clare are forced to revisit their common past, one which they must try to put behind them for Isabel's sake.
121 pages, Kindle Edition
First published December 26, 2015
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About the author
Stevie Turner
54 books181 followersStevie Turner is a British author of suspense, paranormal, women's fiction family dramas, and darkly humorous novels. She has also branched out into the world of audio books, screenplays, and translations. Her third novel 'A House Without Windows' gained the attention of a New York media production company in December 2017, and her screenplay 'For the Sake of a Child' won Silver in the 2017 Depth of Field International Film Festival. Her novella 'Finding David' was a quarter-finalist in the 2019 ScreenCraft Cinematic Short Story Competition. https://writers.coverfly.com/profile/...
Her novella 'Scam!' won the Electric Eclectic Novella Fiction Prize for 2020:
https://electriceclecticsblog.wordpre... Her novel 'His Ladyship' made the finals and Longlist of the 2021 Page Turner Award, and her book 'Falling' reached the finals of the 2022 Page Turner Award. Her latest novel 'Tina's Diary: 1997' also reached the finals of the 2023 Page Turner Writing Award.
To quote reader Roberta Baden-Powell: 'I'm looking forward to reading your new book and find your books the best so far. The style you write in has given me a new perspective and a renewed inspiration in reading once again.'
Stevie can be contacted at the following email address: stevieturner3@hotmail.co.uk You can also find her website at www.stevieturner.uk and her blog at www.steviet3.wordpress.com
Don't forget to sign up to Stevie's mailing list for new publications, events and giveaways! http://eepurl.com/dvNklL
Her novella 'Scam!' won the Electric Eclectic Novella Fiction Prize for 2020:
https://electriceclecticsblog.wordpre... Her novel 'His Ladyship' made the finals and Longlist of the 2021 Page Turner Award, and her book 'Falling' reached the finals of the 2022 Page Turner Award. Her latest novel 'Tina's Diary: 1997' also reached the finals of the 2023 Page Turner Writing Award.
To quote reader Roberta Baden-Powell: 'I'm looking forward to reading your new book and find your books the best so far. The style you write in has given me a new perspective and a renewed inspiration in reading once again.'
Stevie can be contacted at the following email address: stevieturner3@hotmail.co.uk You can also find her website at www.stevieturner.uk and her blog at www.steviet3.wordpress.com
Don't forget to sign up to Stevie's mailing list for new publications, events and giveaways! http://eepurl.com/dvNklL
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October 22, 2015
The author provided me an ARC of this book for a honest review and to see if I felt it fit the criteria for "rockstar romance" for a blog I run dedicated to that genre. I felt it did, though it isn't your typical rockstar romance. This book will take you on an emotional rollercoaster, and admittedly most of those emotions will be of the darker kind.
Once upon a time, Clare is very close to her older sister Izzy, and adores/idolized her in that way that only little sisters can. As a very naïve young woman in 1970, Clare goes to a big rock festival. This American reader could really only tie it to the endless stories of Woodstock I have heard, being just slightly younger than that generation, but I realize festivals of the like were going on across the pond as well. Anyway, that is the picture I have in my mind of the festival she attended, and at the end of several days, Clare has lost her friends and is dirty, exhausted, hungry and broke. An Adonis of a man steps in and offers her an apple, and companionship back home. He is quite fond of the waif, and calls upon her to date whilst he is determined to make it in his band. He puts up with the obvious dislike of her father, and her virginal antics. She has quickly fallen in love with him, and he is quite smitten with her as well, until one night her sister decides to join them for one of his gigs.
To Ross' credit, he never had any intention of hurting Clare, but when he met Izzy, the stars aligned and he knew he had met his soulmate. Likewise, Izzy had never meant to upset her sister, but who can deny true love. No one expected Clare to be as hurt as she was, or to hold a grudge for so long.
Life goes on as it is apt to do; tragedies, joys, and all the other little moments that make up a life pass by. Ross' band hits the big time very quickly, as well as Izzy's first pregnancy and their marriage. Clare refuses to have anything to do with any of it, hanging on to hatred for her sister for having the life she was sure was destined to be hers. Clare does go on to marry a perfectly suitable man, has 2 children with him, and by all accounts a pretty nice life with him. She tells him early on that she has an irreparable rift with her sister, but never tells him the reason why.
Izzy has always tried to keep tabs on her sister but Clare simply has not allowed it, even turning away when they once ran into one another and Izzy tried to introduce her to her niece. 30 years go by, and tragedy forces Izzy to contact Clare. Clare's husband reads the note and encourages Clare to acknowledge Izzy's plea, but Clare tears up the letter and ignores it. Not until Ross arrives at her door does she consider listening and doing what her sister needs. Here is where the story really came together for me. The senselessness of hate and holding on to a grudge, not to mention basically a teenage dream, for all those years, to finally realized how quickly life passes us by and how many precious moments simply cannot ever be replaced. There are so many unexpected twists and turns after Ross arrives, and so much depth to the amount of lives touched by this rift that seems so silly in retrospect. This story touched me on so many levels, and I hope that you will give it a chance to soak into your heart and mind as well.
Very highly recommended for anyone that realizes life doesn't always hand us a happily ever after, at least not in the way we think it should.
Once upon a time, Clare is very close to her older sister Izzy, and adores/idolized her in that way that only little sisters can. As a very naïve young woman in 1970, Clare goes to a big rock festival. This American reader could really only tie it to the endless stories of Woodstock I have heard, being just slightly younger than that generation, but I realize festivals of the like were going on across the pond as well. Anyway, that is the picture I have in my mind of the festival she attended, and at the end of several days, Clare has lost her friends and is dirty, exhausted, hungry and broke. An Adonis of a man steps in and offers her an apple, and companionship back home. He is quite fond of the waif, and calls upon her to date whilst he is determined to make it in his band. He puts up with the obvious dislike of her father, and her virginal antics. She has quickly fallen in love with him, and he is quite smitten with her as well, until one night her sister decides to join them for one of his gigs.
To Ross' credit, he never had any intention of hurting Clare, but when he met Izzy, the stars aligned and he knew he had met his soulmate. Likewise, Izzy had never meant to upset her sister, but who can deny true love. No one expected Clare to be as hurt as she was, or to hold a grudge for so long.
Life goes on as it is apt to do; tragedies, joys, and all the other little moments that make up a life pass by. Ross' band hits the big time very quickly, as well as Izzy's first pregnancy and their marriage. Clare refuses to have anything to do with any of it, hanging on to hatred for her sister for having the life she was sure was destined to be hers. Clare does go on to marry a perfectly suitable man, has 2 children with him, and by all accounts a pretty nice life with him. She tells him early on that she has an irreparable rift with her sister, but never tells him the reason why.
Izzy has always tried to keep tabs on her sister but Clare simply has not allowed it, even turning away when they once ran into one another and Izzy tried to introduce her to her niece. 30 years go by, and tragedy forces Izzy to contact Clare. Clare's husband reads the note and encourages Clare to acknowledge Izzy's plea, but Clare tears up the letter and ignores it. Not until Ross arrives at her door does she consider listening and doing what her sister needs. Here is where the story really came together for me. The senselessness of hate and holding on to a grudge, not to mention basically a teenage dream, for all those years, to finally realized how quickly life passes us by and how many precious moments simply cannot ever be replaced. There are so many unexpected twists and turns after Ross arrives, and so much depth to the amount of lives touched by this rift that seems so silly in retrospect. This story touched me on so many levels, and I hope that you will give it a chance to soak into your heart and mind as well.
Very highly recommended for anyone that realizes life doesn't always hand us a happily ever after, at least not in the way we think it should.
January 15, 2016
AUTHOR STEVIE TURNER of the United Kingdom has penned a novel of love & betrayal that grips the reader from the opening lines to the climatic last word. I have been a voracious reader for over sixty years. "THE DONOR" by Stevie Turner (make no mistake, several books bearing the same title by other Authors) breaks from the traditional "first person" or "third person Point-of-View. I immediately fell in love with Ms. Turner's writing style and her keen talent for switching between her characters. "THE DONOR" introduces you to "Claire Ronson", a 19 year old British girl who secretly attended a three day "Rock Band Festival", the British version of America's infamous "Woodstock" of 1969. Her parents, upper-middle class, Donald, a doctor and Marian, a nurse would never have allowed her to attend the festival. Having been awake for three days and nights, her food stolen, and penniless, she must make her way twenty miles to the Ferry Boat Station to return to her comfortable home. We are then introduced to "Ross Tyler", a blond adonis, as Claire sees him. He comes to her rescue and offers an apple, which she devours. Placing a protective arm around her, he assures her safe passage to the Ferry Boat Station. Ross is also penniless, so they hitch a ride with a farmer and make their way to the ferry boat. Claire calls her parents (collect) to pick her up at the dock. She tells Ross her parents will give him a lift home. Upon one look at Ross, her father does not take a liking to him. The next morning, after her parents have left for the hospital, she finds her older sister is home from the University where she is a Medical Student. Isabel (Izzy) informs her she has broken off her long-term relationship with her boyfriend, Jeff. Claire tells her all about the festival and meeting her "soul-mate", Ross. Ross had invited Claire to a local pub where he, his brother & their band will be playing the following Saturday night. Claire invites Izzy to tag along. What unfolds from there takes the reader through the next three decades. The events that occur tears their family apart. What I found most unique was how Ms. Turner describes the events not just in first or third person, but through each principal character's own thoughts and words. Her characters are so well developed you feel as if you know them as real people . . . your friends or neighbors. The end will literally blow your mind!
I LOVED "THE DONOR" and it is well deserving of FIVE STARS!
Now I am excited to purchase and read all of Author Stevie Turner's work. Fortunately, she has listed them in the first pages of "THE DONOR". Ms. Turner is an extremely talented Author who will no doubt, become an International Best Seller!
I LOVED "THE DONOR" and it is well deserving of FIVE STARS!
Now I am excited to purchase and read all of Author Stevie Turner's work. Fortunately, she has listed them in the first pages of "THE DONOR". Ms. Turner is an extremely talented Author who will no doubt, become an International Best Seller!
January 16, 2016
From the word go this book grabbed my attention and kept it to the very end.
This was a book I could not put down and I read it in 3 hours.
The characters were profoundly flawed and that only added to the realism of the story, the relationships between them all are bittersweet yet heartwarming.
It's a story of one family who suffer because of one betrayal then as the story progresses you find that there was more betrayal that has happened in the past, it was so well written that I could see myself being one or another of the characters and put myself In their shoes at time I found myself rooting for one character then in the next chapter I was rooting for another and wishing I could grab the and shake them and tell them not to be so prideful and explain to them all they would loose out on.
In the second half of the story the main two characters find themselves reunited in the darkest of circumstance and they have to find a way to get through it all together and that leaves them both reeling! The final heartbreaking chapters moved me from disbelief to tears some of joy some of sadness, and it's a credit to the author that she was able to convey these emotions with the telling of this fabulous story
This was a book I could not put down and I read it in 3 hours.
The characters were profoundly flawed and that only added to the realism of the story, the relationships between them all are bittersweet yet heartwarming.
It's a story of one family who suffer because of one betrayal then as the story progresses you find that there was more betrayal that has happened in the past, it was so well written that I could see myself being one or another of the characters and put myself In their shoes at time I found myself rooting for one character then in the next chapter I was rooting for another and wishing I could grab the and shake them and tell them not to be so prideful and explain to them all they would loose out on.
In the second half of the story the main two characters find themselves reunited in the darkest of circumstance and they have to find a way to get through it all together and that leaves them both reeling! The final heartbreaking chapters moved me from disbelief to tears some of joy some of sadness, and it's a credit to the author that she was able to convey these emotions with the telling of this fabulous story
March 10, 2016
I've not read anything by this author before, nor do I normally read this type of story but I was interested enough by the synopsis to give it a go.
The story begins when Clare is still a teenager when she meets Ross who's a singer in a band. Clare is totally in love with Ross and eventually brings him home to me her family. Her father who's a doctor and very opinionated where his daughters are concerned takes an instant dislike to Ross whom he views a long haired layabout. Undaunted Clare is besotted with Ross and introduces him to her older sister Izzy who's back home for a break from medical school after a bad breakup with her boyfriend. Once Ross and Izzy meet all bets are off, Izzy is more vibrant sexually experienced and this leaves poor Clare out in the cold. When Clare finds out about her sister and Ross a family feud begins that lasts for over three decades.
This feels so realistic all the drama and jealousy and refusing to talk things out it was so believable. The chapters are from the various characters POV. Clare and Izzy's mother is desperate for her daughters to reconcile, her fathers animosity towards Ross increases as he blames him for the feud between his daughters, but the more successful Ross's band becomes the more entrenched Claire becomes with her hatred towards her sister and Ross. Christmas's, illness, even death cannot deter Clare from her anger and hatred. It's easy to dislike Izzy and Ross, while initially feeling sorry for Clare, but as the story unfolds my opinion changed the longer it went on it was such a waste of their lives.
The story begins when Clare is still a teenager when she meets Ross who's a singer in a band. Clare is totally in love with Ross and eventually brings him home to me her family. Her father who's a doctor and very opinionated where his daughters are concerned takes an instant dislike to Ross whom he views a long haired layabout. Undaunted Clare is besotted with Ross and introduces him to her older sister Izzy who's back home for a break from medical school after a bad breakup with her boyfriend. Once Ross and Izzy meet all bets are off, Izzy is more vibrant sexually experienced and this leaves poor Clare out in the cold. When Clare finds out about her sister and Ross a family feud begins that lasts for over three decades.
This feels so realistic all the drama and jealousy and refusing to talk things out it was so believable. The chapters are from the various characters POV. Clare and Izzy's mother is desperate for her daughters to reconcile, her fathers animosity towards Ross increases as he blames him for the feud between his daughters, but the more successful Ross's band becomes the more entrenched Claire becomes with her hatred towards her sister and Ross. Christmas's, illness, even death cannot deter Clare from her anger and hatred. It's easy to dislike Izzy and Ross, while initially feeling sorry for Clare, but as the story unfolds my opinion changed the longer it went on it was such a waste of their lives.
August 10, 2016
Enjoyed this story about 2 sisters and a rock star.
June 28, 2017
Tierna .......
Una novela que te enternece a morir ,un amor imposible y una hermandad rota por los sentimientos equivocados .pero también una lección de amor incondicional ala familia .
Una novela que te enternece a morir ,un amor imposible y una hermandad rota por los sentimientos equivocados .pero también una lección de amor incondicional ala familia .
November 1, 2016
The Donor is the first book by Stevie Turner as I was pleasantly surprised by how much I enjoyed this book (completing it in just two days) It won't be my last.
Clare is a teenager, who on a journey home from a music festival meets her first love (a inspiring rock musician called Ross). Che is completely mesmerised by him and falls head over heels. He to seems somewhat smitten by her. He promises that at the end of the week he will come to her home and take her (to one of his gigs). This was in the 1970's before the age of mobile phones.
Clare is concerned about how her doctor father will react when he meets Ross (who in her father eyes would be seen as nothing more than a waste of space).
Clare is a teenager, who on a journey home from a music festival meets her first love (a inspiring rock musician called Ross). Che is completely mesmerised by him and falls head over heels. He to seems somewhat smitten by her. He promises that at the end of the week he will come to her home and take her (to one of his gigs). This was in the 1970's before the age of mobile phones.
Clare is concerned about how her doctor father will react when he meets Ross (who in her father eyes would be seen as nothing more than a waste of space).
November 6, 2017
mucho de reflexionar y el perdonar
April 13, 2025
No es un libro que me agradó ni que recomendaría. Tenía una buena trama, pero siento que la autora no le saca todo el potencial. Es ligero, eso sí y de fácil lectura.
En cuanto a los personajes, lo siento pero no he podido con Clare (la hermana engañada), no la he comprendido ni empatizado con ella ni cuando tenía 19 años ni a sus 51. Algo parecido me ha pasado con el resto de personajes.
En cuanto a los personajes, lo siento pero no he podido con Clare (la hermana engañada), no la he comprendido ni empatizado con ella ni cuando tenía 19 años ni a sus 51. Algo parecido me ha pasado con el resto de personajes.
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