A visitor from her past jolts Laura Stewart into memories . some funny . some heart wrenching . But she needs to deal with all of them before she can open the door to allow her past to shape her future. A story starting in the present day, narrated by a woman who needs to retell her past before she can move on with her future. There is no fantastic underlying plot, just a simple retelling of events leading to the present day. Most of us will recognise the uncertainty of youth and the first flush of love.
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(P.D. Publishing, Inc., 1 June 2006, first published 1 January 2005, 188 pages, paperback, A Year of @EpicReads 2019, a book that you've read before and is an all-time favourite, bought from @AmazonUK)
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This is one of my favourite LGBT books. I read it soon after its release, more than 10 years ago. Until that point all of the LGBT fiction I'd read was pretty awful, badly written with paper-thin characters and full of clichés. This was the first fiction I'd read that was exactly what a book should be, well-written, engaging and with characters to fall in love with. LGBT fiction has moved on a lot since then and the day of badly-written, cheesy clichés are few and far between. Thankfully. I loved Laura and Emma, they are completely relatable. Laura reminds me a lot of myself years ago when I first came out. With this book, for the first time, I felt I was reading about LGBT characters I felt connected to. It was a treat to revisit it and discover I still love it as much as I did all those years ago.