Something Like Love

Catherine Dunne

Jun 2012 · Pan Macmillan

About this ebook

After twenty years of marriage, Ben ups and leaves his wife Rose, their children and their family home in Dublin. Just like that: no words of regret, no compromise, no note - only a simple 'I don't love you anymore'. It has taken Rose all this time to get her life together again: she's brought up her three children, Lisa, Brian and Damien single-handedly, and not without difficulty for never again does she want to be completely broke, or to have to revisit that night in hospital with Damien hovering between life and death. To think about it just makes her shudder.

Now Rose is concentrating on her business, the 'Bonne Bouche' bakery, and all the clients she's won, all the friends she's made. Her accounts are in order, the business is blooming. Life really doesn't seem too bad. Until Ben returns, again without warning, and it is soon clear that he expects to infiltrate Rose's carefully created world in the most unwelcome of ways.

A stunning sequel to In the Beginning, Catherine Dunne's first novel, Something Like Love is an astonishing portrait of a marriage, and of how the ties that bind are sometimes there forever.

Ratings and reviews

Punctuation was annoying, thought for a little while someone was called Shed.... (She'd). Hard to follow conversations as no speach marks etc. Hope this was helpful and taken as a positive feedback.

I liked the story and i loved how it ended nicely. Personally, I think the way that Rose and Same got together should have been more spontaneous but thats just me ^_^... but other than that it was really gud ^_^

About the author

Catherine Dunne was born in Dublin. After studying English and Spanish at Trinity College, she became a teacher. Her first novel, In the Beginning, was published in 1997, and was translated into several languages. Her most recent novels are The Walled Garden and Another Kind of Life and her non-fiction book, An Unconsidered People was published in 2003 and has sold over 12, 000 copies in Ireland alone. Catherine Dunne lives in Dublin.