Soft Touch

by Maeve Haran

Catherine Hope serves as the novel's focus as she finds herself helplessly trapped between generations. Scorned by her 18-year-old daughter who treats her "with the kind of contempt normally reserved for traffic wardens and paedophiles", Catherine finds no solace from her overbearing, conventional mother-in-law: "The trouble with your generation is that you have the authority of a damp dishrag!" And things look set to go from bad to worse when her daughter becomes involved with a sexy road protestor--a road her mother-in-law is campaigning to have built! Tempers flare, lines are drawn and Catherine is ready to give up on the lot of them. But when it comes down to it, the whole family manages to surprise one another in the face of crisis.

Genres: Romance, Chick Lit, Fiction

288 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1999

About the author

Maeve Haran is an Oxford Law graduate who worked in journalism and television before writing her first novel, Having It All, a worldwide bestseller translated into 26 languages and shortlisted for
the Romantic Novel of the Year. She wrote twelve more contemporary novels, one work of non-fiction, and two historical novels.

Her new book In the Summertime is due out on June 8.

She has grown-up three children and lives in North London.

Reviews

[Anna Blakey · Rating 4 out of 5]

Very “chick flick” in book form, but at the same time I am always going to love a story about daughters, mothers and grandmothers and their relationships. a really beautiful and touching book at its core, disguised under teen angst and unseriousness

[Pam Coll · Rating 3 out of 5]

Having looked up the definition of chic lit, this is definitely that. I was happy enough reading it but it dragged and I finished it with relief. Not my cuppa. It was somewhat maudlin I thought and predictable. Central character an egocentric young modern miss. The older characters and the settings were a little more interesting.

[Rachel · Rating 4 out of 5]

Entertaining chicklit.

[Yang Shu-yuan]

Stirnrunzelnd beobachtet Catherine Stone, sturmerprobte Mutter zweier Kinder, ihre 18-jährige Tochter Rachel. Ausgerechnet jetzt, kurz vor dem Abitur, ist diese wild entschlossen, einem jungen Mann ihre Jungfräulichkeit zu schenken, der so gar nicht in die friedliche Familie passt. Denn außer seiner Leidenschaft für Rachel hat dieser Marko noch eine ausgeprägte Passion: militante Öko-Aktionen. Womit er nicht nur Großmutter Lavinia in die Quere kommt, die sich soeben einer Bürgerinitiative angeschlossen hat ...


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Eigentlich hält Catherine Stone sich für eine Frau von klarem Verstand und liberalen Erziehungsmethoden - bis ihre 18jährige Tochter Rachel beschließt, sich statt aufs Abitur auf den Verlust ihrer Jungfräulichkeit vorzubereiten. Und als Großmutter Lavinia auch noch zu einer militanten Bürgerinitiative überläuft und mit ihrer großen Jugendliebe einen zweiten Frühling feiert, gerät die Familie Hope gründlich in Turbulenzen... »Warmherzig, witzig und höchst unterhaltsam!« Publishing News -- Dieser Text bezieht sich auf eine vergriffene oder nicht verfügbare Ausgabe dieses Titels

[Eva Morras · Rating 2 out of 5]

2.5 Pas trop d’avis. Un livre dans le vent, pas mauvais mais pas très très bon non plus: mérite pas son 2 mais pas un 3 non plus

[Sarah · Rating 2 out of 5]

It would have been a good book for a summer holiday at the beach. A little nice story - nothing too serious though, a few clichés, loooove, a few adventures for everyone ...
easily to read, quick to forget.

[Kay Wells · Rating 5 out of 5]

omgoodness until i put this author up on here did not realise she had so many books. An easy read about mother and daughter always at logaheads. Worth a read.

[Anke · Rating 5 out of 5]

teenage girl falling in love with the bad guy ;-)