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Love at First Sight
"It's my sight I've lost, not my brains,"
Bryden Moore told the well-meaning friends who worried about him holidaying on a remote Nova Scotia island.
They went ahead anyway, installing Casey Landrigan, a guide-dog trainer, in the cottage next door. They expected Casey to help Bryden come to terms with his blindness.
What no one expected was the attraction between them. Casey hadn't felt like this about any other man. But Bryden's blindness wasn't the problem--it was his belief that "love has to be the most abused word in the English language."
Bryden Moore told the well-meaning friends who worried about him holidaying on a remote Nova Scotia island.
They went ahead anyway, installing Casey Landrigan, a guide-dog trainer, in the cottage next door. They expected Casey to help Bryden come to terms with his blindness.
What no one expected was the attraction between them. Casey hadn't felt like this about any other man. But Bryden's blindness wasn't the problem--it was his belief that "love has to be the most abused word in the English language."
189 pages, Paperback
First published May 1, 1990
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About the author
Sandra Field
212 books35 followersJill MacLean was born on 1941 in England, UK. In 1950, her family moved to Nova Scotia, Canada.
After receiving her Bachelor of Science with honours from Dalhousie University, she married. She worked at the Fisheries Research Board until her daughter was born. Following the birth of her son, she was employed by the pathology laboratory of Sydney City Hospital and the biology department of Mount Allison University. More recently, she completed a Masters in Theological Studies at the Atlantic School of Theology; her thesis juxtaposed Hebrew concepts of chaos in the book of Job with modern chaos theory.
When her husband joined the Armed Forces as a chaplain, she had to stop working. They moved three times in the first 18 months, the last move was to Prince Edward Island. By then her children were in school; she couldn't get a job; and at the local bridge club, she kept forgetting not to trump her partner's ace.
However, she had always loved to read, fascinated by the lure of being drawn into the other world of the story. So one day she bought a dozen Harlequin novels, read and analyzed them, then sat down and wrote one. Her first book, To Trust My Love, typed with four fingers, was published in 1974 as Sandra Field (she believes she's curiously the first Canadian to write for Harlequin). During the four years she lived in Prince Edward Island, she researched an 18th century French settlement located near present-day Brudenell, resulting in a historical book, Jean Pierre Roma, published in 1977 under her real name. She also started to write in collaboration with other Martimer writer under the pseudonym Jan MacLean. She also used to singed her novels the pseudonym of Jocelyn Haley. Her pseudonyms was an attempt to prevent the congregation from finding out what the chaplain's wife was up to in her spare time.
Before she turned 40, her life was changed, she had lost three of the most important women in her life: her mother and sister to illness, and her seventeen-year-old daughter to a car accident, and she separated from her husband in 1976. One of the lasting legacies of the grief caused by these losses has been the idea that it is impossible and undesirable to live every waking moment in the knowledge that loss can strike at any time.
She's been very fortunate for years to be able to combine a love of travel (particularly to the north - she doesn't do heat well) with her writing, by describing settings that most people will probably never visit. And there's always the challenge of making the heroine's long underwear sound romantic. Her novels has been translated into Spanish, French, Portuguese, German, Italian, Greek, Dutch, Swedish, Yugoslavian, Japanese... and sold in more than 90 countries. Her first collection of poetry, The Brevity of Red, was published in 2003. When her nine-years-old grandson, Stuart, asked him a book for him, she wrote her first Children's book and decided continued writing this type of books.
Jill now lives in Bedford, Nova Scotia, and she's lived most of her life in the Maritimes of Canada, within reach of the sea. Kayaking and canoeing, hiking and gardening, listening to music and reading are all sources of great pleasure. But best of all are good friends, some going back to high-school days, and her family. In Newfoundland, she has a beautiful daughter-in-law and the two most delightful, handsome, and intelligent grandchildren in the world (of course!).
After receiving her Bachelor of Science with honours from Dalhousie University, she married. She worked at the Fisheries Research Board until her daughter was born. Following the birth of her son, she was employed by the pathology laboratory of Sydney City Hospital and the biology department of Mount Allison University. More recently, she completed a Masters in Theological Studies at the Atlantic School of Theology; her thesis juxtaposed Hebrew concepts of chaos in the book of Job with modern chaos theory.
When her husband joined the Armed Forces as a chaplain, she had to stop working. They moved three times in the first 18 months, the last move was to Prince Edward Island. By then her children were in school; she couldn't get a job; and at the local bridge club, she kept forgetting not to trump her partner's ace.
However, she had always loved to read, fascinated by the lure of being drawn into the other world of the story. So one day she bought a dozen Harlequin novels, read and analyzed them, then sat down and wrote one. Her first book, To Trust My Love, typed with four fingers, was published in 1974 as Sandra Field (she believes she's curiously the first Canadian to write for Harlequin). During the four years she lived in Prince Edward Island, she researched an 18th century French settlement located near present-day Brudenell, resulting in a historical book, Jean Pierre Roma, published in 1977 under her real name. She also started to write in collaboration with other Martimer writer under the pseudonym Jan MacLean. She also used to singed her novels the pseudonym of Jocelyn Haley. Her pseudonyms was an attempt to prevent the congregation from finding out what the chaplain's wife was up to in her spare time.
Before she turned 40, her life was changed, she had lost three of the most important women in her life: her mother and sister to illness, and her seventeen-year-old daughter to a car accident, and she separated from her husband in 1976. One of the lasting legacies of the grief caused by these losses has been the idea that it is impossible and undesirable to live every waking moment in the knowledge that loss can strike at any time.
She's been very fortunate for years to be able to combine a love of travel (particularly to the north - she doesn't do heat well) with her writing, by describing settings that most people will probably never visit. And there's always the challenge of making the heroine's long underwear sound romantic. Her novels has been translated into Spanish, French, Portuguese, German, Italian, Greek, Dutch, Swedish, Yugoslavian, Japanese... and sold in more than 90 countries. Her first collection of poetry, The Brevity of Red, was published in 2003. When her nine-years-old grandson, Stuart, asked him a book for him, she wrote her first Children's book and decided continued writing this type of books.
Jill now lives in Bedford, Nova Scotia, and she's lived most of her life in the Maritimes of Canada, within reach of the sea. Kayaking and canoeing, hiking and gardening, listening to music and reading are all sources of great pleasure. But best of all are good friends, some going back to high-school days, and her family. In Newfoundland, she has a beautiful daughter-in-law and the two most delightful, handsome, and intelligent grandchildren in the world (of course!).
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June 6, 2017
Re Love at First Sight - Sandra Field does a bit of a play on words with this title. Mainly cause it is love at first sight for the h, but the H is blind and rather annoyed by it- so there is some angry H moments until he comes to his senses to be a proper HP H.
This one starts with the H telling his very good friends that he is taking himself off to his summer cottage on the Canadian coast. His friend's wife, who is a meddler, decides that she can con a young lady she met some months earlier, who is nearing the end of a three year apprenticeship for guide dog training, into accepting a loan of holiday cottage next door to the H.
Since the lady is experienced with blind people, the meddler thinks that the two of them will meet each other and maybe something good will come of it. After all, she has been matchmaking on the H for years, and surely one of these ladies has to stick. Plus the meddler is really worried that the newly blind H might hurt himself or hide in his house if he is left alone to his own devices.
So the h gets offered a holiday cottage by her cousin to use during a break from her intense training course. She meets the H on her first day there, but he is rude and accuses her of trespassing when she takes a short cut to the beach via his property. The h can't help but be astounded by his rudeness and yet overwhelmingly attracted to the H's long runner physique, she is practically drooling with awareness and the H never even notices. The h doesn't realize he is blind and thinks he is just a Mr. Grumpy Cranky Pants. She resolves to avoid him, but runs into him on the beach.
Then she finds out he is blind when a big storm blows in and the h decides to hang out in it and runs into the H who has lost his way and his cane. She helps him get back to his house and soon a tentative acquaintance develops when she encourages him to go swimming and suggests a running partner so he can continue running marathons. The h doesn't tell him what she does professionally, she is too enamored and too worried about how he will react.
This H is very introverted and practically misanthropic. He is a university mathematician with an neglected/abusive upbringing, ( his dad had his puppy shot when he was six right before packing the H off to boarding school and his mother is a narcissistic drama queen.) He was blinded by acid when a test tube exploded while he was visiting a chemistry guy.
The h is able to suggest practical ways for him to cope with his new situation as he has only been blind for a few months. There is a big attraction between them too and after the h experiences cataclysmic brownie overdose (she ate eight of them before bed,) and a raccoon breaks into her kitchen t raid the garbage can, she and the H experience a huge roofie kissing moment when he has to rescue her from the Great Raccoon Garbage Heist.
This leads to an almost lurve moment, but the h is a unicorn petter and wants to wait a bit before jumping into dragon riding. The h has a potential suitor in the wings, one of the instructors for guide dogs she works with, but she is rapidly realizing that she is irrevocably falling for the H - no matter his mental distance and his wish to just take her to bed with no relationship. They are definitely getting closer and the H is losing his misanthropic stance pretty rapidly, until he finds out what she does for a living and throws a big wobbly.
The H thinks the h and his meddler friend set him up, the meddler did not want him to be at his cottage alone and all the h's protests that she knew nothing of the situation fail to move the H. He kicks her out of his house and the h winds up going home, with only memories and wish for what might have been. Seven months go by and the h has to busy herself with her demanding course and is doing well with it, but she still dreams about the H. Then she finds out the H has applied to her school for a guide dog.
Since fraternization isn't allowed between instructors and students, the h is pretty worried. Especially when she has to work with the H because one of her trainee dogs is the best fit for him. The H claims he wants to get the know the h better, but she has to warn him off because any personal involvement with a student could cause her to lose her job. The H regrets the harsh words when they parted and it is pretty obvious he is trying to be closer to the h. He doesn't want to jeopardize her career tho and he really does need a guide dog.
The h does manage to be professional with the H and his new dog. We get some interesting insight into how a guide dog program works and the H reveals his tragic backstory to the h when his new dog, Bess, saves him from getting run over. The h was worried that the H wouldn't cuddle Bess enough, she needs lots of affection, but the near miss galvanizes him and Bess into bonding and the H and Bess complete the course successfully.
The h always takes her students to tea at her parent's house upon completion of the course. Her family really likes the H and her sister and her dad are very encouraging. The h realizes that the H's upbringing was very cold and distant compared to her family and that impression is further sharpened when the H maneuvers her into meeting his truly horrible parents.
The h doesn't care tho, she loves the H and will stick with him like superglue, good times and bad, no matter what - as long as he shares with her. The H has a few false starts on the sharing part, but eventually he gets it together enough to let the h into his life.
The H manages to get a job at an Ottawa university near where the h works and the h becomes a full fledged guide dog instructor. Several months have passed and the H finagles a switch of guide dog instructors so that he and the h will not be violating any fraternization rules. He and the h go back to his cottage by the sea and the h gets lost in the fog.
The H and Bess come to find her and true lurve forever is declared by all. The conclusion is the H and h lurving it up and feeling the love for everyone, the h is willing to marry him and tolerate his parents as long as they don't visit very often. The H is in awe of the beauty of the h, she enables him to see with his mind and her love has freed him from his self-imposed withdrawal from the world for a nice pink sparkly HPlandia HEA.
This one was a fast paced and interesting book. Bess was a great secondary character and the antics of some of the other dogs in training were pretty funny for some light relief. The H and h had a decent amount of intensity and tho the h was love struck pretty rapidly, the build up and the development of the relationship was really well done in the slow burn style.
Give this one a go if like some angst but don't like a ton of drama. The h was practical and had a great backbone. The H took more time to peel off the layers of his character, but SF did a really well done H personality reveal, (all with no H pov, but that worked even better,) and made this a great character driven HP outing.
This one starts with the H telling his very good friends that he is taking himself off to his summer cottage on the Canadian coast. His friend's wife, who is a meddler, decides that she can con a young lady she met some months earlier, who is nearing the end of a three year apprenticeship for guide dog training, into accepting a loan of holiday cottage next door to the H.
Since the lady is experienced with blind people, the meddler thinks that the two of them will meet each other and maybe something good will come of it. After all, she has been matchmaking on the H for years, and surely one of these ladies has to stick. Plus the meddler is really worried that the newly blind H might hurt himself or hide in his house if he is left alone to his own devices.
So the h gets offered a holiday cottage by her cousin to use during a break from her intense training course. She meets the H on her first day there, but he is rude and accuses her of trespassing when she takes a short cut to the beach via his property. The h can't help but be astounded by his rudeness and yet overwhelmingly attracted to the H's long runner physique, she is practically drooling with awareness and the H never even notices. The h doesn't realize he is blind and thinks he is just a Mr. Grumpy Cranky Pants. She resolves to avoid him, but runs into him on the beach.
Then she finds out he is blind when a big storm blows in and the h decides to hang out in it and runs into the H who has lost his way and his cane. She helps him get back to his house and soon a tentative acquaintance develops when she encourages him to go swimming and suggests a running partner so he can continue running marathons. The h doesn't tell him what she does professionally, she is too enamored and too worried about how he will react.
This H is very introverted and practically misanthropic. He is a university mathematician with an neglected/abusive upbringing, ( his dad had his puppy shot when he was six right before packing the H off to boarding school and his mother is a narcissistic drama queen.) He was blinded by acid when a test tube exploded while he was visiting a chemistry guy.
The h is able to suggest practical ways for him to cope with his new situation as he has only been blind for a few months. There is a big attraction between them too and after the h experiences cataclysmic brownie overdose (she ate eight of them before bed,) and a raccoon breaks into her kitchen t raid the garbage can, she and the H experience a huge roofie kissing moment when he has to rescue her from the Great Raccoon Garbage Heist.
This leads to an almost lurve moment, but the h is a unicorn petter and wants to wait a bit before jumping into dragon riding. The h has a potential suitor in the wings, one of the instructors for guide dogs she works with, but she is rapidly realizing that she is irrevocably falling for the H - no matter his mental distance and his wish to just take her to bed with no relationship. They are definitely getting closer and the H is losing his misanthropic stance pretty rapidly, until he finds out what she does for a living and throws a big wobbly.
The H thinks the h and his meddler friend set him up, the meddler did not want him to be at his cottage alone and all the h's protests that she knew nothing of the situation fail to move the H. He kicks her out of his house and the h winds up going home, with only memories and wish for what might have been. Seven months go by and the h has to busy herself with her demanding course and is doing well with it, but she still dreams about the H. Then she finds out the H has applied to her school for a guide dog.
Since fraternization isn't allowed between instructors and students, the h is pretty worried. Especially when she has to work with the H because one of her trainee dogs is the best fit for him. The H claims he wants to get the know the h better, but she has to warn him off because any personal involvement with a student could cause her to lose her job. The H regrets the harsh words when they parted and it is pretty obvious he is trying to be closer to the h. He doesn't want to jeopardize her career tho and he really does need a guide dog.
The h does manage to be professional with the H and his new dog. We get some interesting insight into how a guide dog program works and the H reveals his tragic backstory to the h when his new dog, Bess, saves him from getting run over. The h was worried that the H wouldn't cuddle Bess enough, she needs lots of affection, but the near miss galvanizes him and Bess into bonding and the H and Bess complete the course successfully.
The h always takes her students to tea at her parent's house upon completion of the course. Her family really likes the H and her sister and her dad are very encouraging. The h realizes that the H's upbringing was very cold and distant compared to her family and that impression is further sharpened when the H maneuvers her into meeting his truly horrible parents.
The h doesn't care tho, she loves the H and will stick with him like superglue, good times and bad, no matter what - as long as he shares with her. The H has a few false starts on the sharing part, but eventually he gets it together enough to let the h into his life.
The H manages to get a job at an Ottawa university near where the h works and the h becomes a full fledged guide dog instructor. Several months have passed and the H finagles a switch of guide dog instructors so that he and the h will not be violating any fraternization rules. He and the h go back to his cottage by the sea and the h gets lost in the fog.
The H and Bess come to find her and true lurve forever is declared by all. The conclusion is the H and h lurving it up and feeling the love for everyone, the h is willing to marry him and tolerate his parents as long as they don't visit very often. The H is in awe of the beauty of the h, she enables him to see with his mind and her love has freed him from his self-imposed withdrawal from the world for a nice pink sparkly HPlandia HEA.
This one was a fast paced and interesting book. Bess was a great secondary character and the antics of some of the other dogs in training were pretty funny for some light relief. The H and h had a decent amount of intensity and tho the h was love struck pretty rapidly, the build up and the development of the relationship was really well done in the slow burn style.
Give this one a go if like some angst but don't like a ton of drama. The h was practical and had a great backbone. The H took more time to peel off the layers of his character, but SF did a really well done H personality reveal, (all with no H pov, but that worked even better,) and made this a great character driven HP outing.
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July 31, 2012
There was just something about this novel that I didn't personally like. It just seemed so far away to me, if that makes sense. Logically if I think about it, it was a decent story and we got a happy ending but I can't get over the fact I disliked the book. So I rated it 2 stars using my feelings and obvious logic.
July 2, 2022
The two most interesting parts, though sadly neither one is very big:
1. Training the seeing-eye dog and hero to develop a rapport together.
2. What the heroine thinks is a burglar breaking into her house in the middle of the night.
1. Training the seeing-eye dog and hero to develop a rapport together.
2. What the heroine thinks is a burglar breaking into her house in the middle of the night.
July 5, 2022
3.5 stars
Outdated for enjoyed a lot more than expected.
Outdated for enjoyed a lot more than expected.
April 1, 2024
I loved this story! Very touching!
September 19, 2011
rating; 3.75
It was a nice romance. More character based than usual HQNs. A professional heroine through and through.
It was a nice romance. More character based than usual HQNs. A professional heroine through and through.
June 18, 2016
LOVE IT LOVE IT LOVE IT <3 It's a great story.
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June 27, 2018"It's my sight I've lost, not my brains,"
Bryden Moore told the well-meaning friends who worried about him holidaying on a remote Nova Scotia island.
They went ahead anyway, installing Casey Landrigan, a guide-dog trainer, in the cottage next door. They expected Casey to help Bryden come to terms with his blindness.
What no one expected was the attraction between them. Casey hadn't felt like this about any other man. But Bryden's blindness wasn't the problem--it was his belief that "love has to be the most abused word in the English language."
Bryden Moore told the well-meaning friends who worried about him holidaying on a remote Nova Scotia island.
They went ahead anyway, installing Casey Landrigan, a guide-dog trainer, in the cottage next door. They expected Casey to help Bryden come to terms with his blindness.
What no one expected was the attraction between them. Casey hadn't felt like this about any other man. But Bryden's blindness wasn't the problem--it was his belief that "love has to be the most abused word in the English language."
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