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Keepsake
Kathy Carter tries to overcome grief at her husband's death and Jesse Ludan, a reporter, discovers his marriage is changed by the six months he spent in jail
- GenresRomanceContemporary
336 pages, Mass Market Paperback
First published January 1, 1987
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Sharon Curtis
12 books25 followersThe husband and wife writing team Tom and Sharon Curtis also write under the pen name Laura London.
Married more than forty years, Tom and Sharon published ten historical and contemporary romance novels from 1976 to 1986, many of which have come to be regarded as classics in the genre.
The daughter of a petroleum geologist father and historian and magazine editor mother, Sharon was raised overseas and lived in Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, the Canary Islands, Turkey and Iran, and attended high school in London. As an adult, she worked in bookstore management.
Tom attended the University of Wisconsin in Madison and has worked for a public television station as a writer and on-air reporter. He is currently employed as a semi truck driver for a chemical company and plays guitar with a Celtic band that includes a son on bodhran and a daughter on fiddle. Together they have played eighteen years of annual performances at the largest Irish musical festival in the world.
Married more than forty years, Tom and Sharon published ten historical and contemporary romance novels from 1976 to 1986, many of which have come to be regarded as classics in the genre.
The daughter of a petroleum geologist father and historian and magazine editor mother, Sharon was raised overseas and lived in Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, the Canary Islands, Turkey and Iran, and attended high school in London. As an adult, she worked in bookstore management.
Tom attended the University of Wisconsin in Madison and has worked for a public television station as a writer and on-air reporter. He is currently employed as a semi truck driver for a chemical company and plays guitar with a Celtic band that includes a son on bodhran and a daughter on fiddle. Together they have played eighteen years of annual performances at the largest Irish musical festival in the world.
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July 22, 2012
Two stories really, The golden Touch, about a famous rock star who falls head over hills for a small town girl/widow who runs an instrument repair shop. The why of his sudden deep, sincere, scale every mountain love is never clear. The second, The Testimony is about a journalist who has just spent six months in prison for reasons of conscience (I'll skip the details). Both rather dated and nothing whatsoever to write home about. The book is written by Tom and Sharon Curtis.
November 17, 2014
synopsis:
two stories in one book.
the golden touch: rock star is passing through a small town on his motorcycle and enters a small instrument repair shop. he comes back later that night after his concert is over and takes the owner out. he keeps coming back to the small town to see her, and they fall in love.
the testimony: a journalist who was jailed for not revealing his sources is released, and has to learn to live with his wife again.
what i liked: both stories were well told, with both having heartfelt moments, and then moments of sheer pain. the characters were well drawn, and easy to relate to.
what i didn't like: not the fault of the stories, because they were written awhile ago, but they felt kind of dated.
two stories in one book.
the golden touch: rock star is passing through a small town on his motorcycle and enters a small instrument repair shop. he comes back later that night after his concert is over and takes the owner out. he keeps coming back to the small town to see her, and they fall in love.
the testimony: a journalist who was jailed for not revealing his sources is released, and has to learn to live with his wife again.
what i liked: both stories were well told, with both having heartfelt moments, and then moments of sheer pain. the characters were well drawn, and easy to relate to.
what i didn't like: not the fault of the stories, because they were written awhile ago, but they felt kind of dated.
March 15, 2015
First book - https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1... WAY better. If it was just that book then this chronicle would have scored highly. Dated yes but wouldn't take too much to bring it into the 21st century.
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