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Water, Stone, Heart Signed Edition

by Will North

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"North (The Long Walk Home) exploits the 2004 flood of Boscastle, England, in this saggy romantic novel of two damaged people who find each other amid tragedy. Andrew Stratton and Nicola Rhys-Jones are both divorced Americans who end up in the U.K. for different reasons. Andrew, a professor of architecture, is drawn by a longstanding idea he has about livable places that takes on new importance after his wife leaves him. In Cornwall, Andrew falls in love with the place, and with Nicola, an artist who has left an abusive marriage to a wealthy Englishman and is skittish around men. The two engage in a wary flirtation, both thinking it'll go nowhere, but then the freak storm hits, and the people Andrew has come to care about are imperiled. As Andrew works to save the village, he learns about the nature and longing of his own heart. Unfortunately, the narrative moves at a glacial pace, and the author's sentimental leanings can be hard to take. The love story has some great moments, but these aren't enough to overpower the flood of treacle and lethargic storytelling." Publishers Weekly (Copyright Reed Business Information, Inc.)

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"If you like Nicholas Sparks, you will love Will North — he is a strong, vivid writer with a romantic’s heart." Patricia Gaffney, New York Times bestselling author of Mad Dash

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The Seattle Post-Intelligencer compared North's first novel to the bestselling work of Nicholas Sparks and Robert James Waller. This follow-up to The Long Walk Home is a moving and bittersweet tale of love, loss, and the power of nature to alter lives.
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Denise Morland, May 2, 2009 (view all comments by Denise Morland)
Water, Stone, Heart is a beautiful, moving book about two people finding each other when they need each other most. Andrew Stanton has just gone through a nasty and unexpected divorce. He goes to Boscastle, England for the summer to learn how to build stone walls, hoping to reconnect with what drew him to architecture in the first place and figure out what he wants out of life. Nicola Rhys-Jones has escaped to Boscastle, trying to hide from an abusive marriage. In the climactic ending a flood hits the village endangering the people who have protected Andrew and Nicola and tried to help them heal. The storm will bring out hidden feelings and show new sides of their characters.

Yes, at heart this book is a romance, but its more then that as well. There is interesting information about the history of building stone walls and the history of Boscastle. There is plenty of humor, drama, and the descriptions of the natural world are fantastic. The characters are well developed, realistic, but also a little quirky and interesting.

I thoroughly enjoyed this book! It was entertaining, romantic, and had a believable and well paced plot. I will definately go back and read Will North's firs book, The Long Walk Home.
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Product Details

ISBN:
9781135972684
Publisher:
Shaye Areheart Books
Binding:
Hardcover
Author:
North, Will
Language:
English
Pages:
288
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