Love Lives

by Lloyd/Rees (Author)

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  Hardcover
  2003

  $3.29

  Lost Soul's Point is the tourist trail name for the highest part of the wild and windswept cliffs overlooking the south coast seaside resort of Shoresby. In 1871, following the suicide of his daughter here, Alexander Walpole locked himself inside his nearby family home of Appleforth House and burnt it to the ground. It's here that the hopes and fears of four very different people converge today...Ned is the architect restoring Appleforth House brick by brick, but who can't see his way clear to mending his own broken heart. Ellen is a film-maker shooting a documentary about other people's suffering. She doesn't expect to find herself examining her own happiness. Jimmy is growing up the hard way, learning to cope with unrequited love and with the memory of a tragic death. Seventeen-year-old Verity is an incurable romantic, intent on falling head over heels for the first time but unaware of how hard she might get tripped up in the process...Loves Lives tells the story of how these four people meet and what happens when they do. It's about falling in love, growing up, overcoming tragedy and, above all, learning to love life and live it to the full...

• Used

  Paperback
  2004

  $4.25

  Two men. Two women. And every emotion you've ever felt... In 1871 Appleforth House was burned to the ground. Now, over a hundred years later, the house is being rebuilt - and so the lives of four very different people converge. Ned, a successful architect, is obsessed with restoring the house to its former glory. Focussed and determined - and bruised by a past relationship - he's not looking for distractions. But then Ellen, a documentary-maker, arrives to make a film about one of the local landmarks, leaving her boyfriend and some tough decisions temporarily behind her. But as pieces of the past start to fall into place, the restoration also brings together Jimmy and Verity, two local teenagers: one falling in love for the first time, the other an incurable romantic, determined to find her fairy-tale hero. And as their hopes and fears come together they all learn some surprising lessons about finding love in the most unlikely places ...