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SETTLING

Written by Joan L. Cannon

Friday, 11 April 2008 22:02

SETTLING, Novel
by Joan L. Cannon
ISBN 1-59431-493-4,
trade paperback, 16.95.

Cannon's novel Settling was released by Cambridge Books in March. Also available as an e-book, it can be ordered from Cambridge Books, Amazon, or from the author. Ruth Duchamp leaves New York to come to terms with a future she fears. She and her husband Alex married not so much in haste as with too little self-knowledge. Attractive without being conventionally pretty, red-haired Ruth is a product of the rock-bound coast of Maine with all that implies. Alex, an orphan from a small Quebec town, is so handsome he turns heads wherever he goes. Reared by a simple couple who adopted him, he has always felt out of place. After meeting Ruth in New York, Alex is intrigued by her differences from other women he has known, and she is drawn by his extraordinary looks and air of mystery. Over the years, disappointments and unrealized hopes make Alex vulnerable to a predatory woman, but Ruth refuses to give him a divorce. Here is a story about faith and fortitude for readers of romance and mainstream.

For Ruth it's as if she's lost her youthful love of sensory appreciation of her surroundings, a "fleshly and spiritual frailty" that can only be healed by connecting with the earth. A job with a caring physician and his family, plus the frank and poetic touch of Nettie - a landlady become friend, awaken Ruth to who she really is and what she truly wants in a relationship. Why is she hanging on to Alex, separate but not divorced?

For Alex, his spirit longs for freedom from the rigid atmosphere he knew as an orphan in a French, Catholic orphanage and later as the adopted son of staid parents. Creativity in the theatre restores his spirit temporarily but fails to fill the emotional and spiritual chasm within.

Beautiful and beautifully written story!!!

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