Becalmed
Normandie Fischer
Paperback: 385 pages
Publisher: Lighthouse Publishing of the Carolinas
Publication Date: July 1,
2013
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1938499611
ISBN-13: 978-1938499616
About the novel
When a Southern woman with a broken heart finds herself
falling for a widower with a broken boat, it's anything but smooth sailing.
Tadie Longworth doesn't spend much time worrying that she’s
turning into one of Beaufort, North Carolina’s, spinsters. She has a gift shop
full of her own jewelry designs and a sweet little sailboat to take her mind
off the guy who got away. But now he’s back—with the fashion-plate wife he
picked instead of Tadie—and he’s hitting on her again.
When widower Will Merritt limps into town with a broken
sailboat and a perky seven-year-old daughter, he provides the perfect
distraction—until that distraction turns into fascination when Tadie offers
shelter during a hurricane. Over candlelit games of SlapJack and Monopoly,
Jilly becomes the daughter she could have had and Will the man she always
wanted. Only, he’s sworn never to let another woman in his life. Any day now,
he’s going to finish those repairs, and that ship's going to sail—straight out
of Tadie’s life.
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My thoughts
Sarah Longworth, better known as Tadie, has grown up in a
privileged family along the beautiful coast of North Carolina. Unconventionally, she is a sailor, who loves
her business and seems to never work a day.
She has a beautiful home she inherited from her parents and good
friends. But Tadie is approaching middle
age and has not loved or been loved in return; she has missed becoming a mother
and forming a family of her own. To my mind,
this must be a tremendous nagging ache on her soul; no matter how she fills her
life to distract it. And then love, as
it has a way of doing, appears out of nowhere when she meets Will and his
daughter Jilly.
Normally, I don’t read typical “romance” novels as I am one
of those who has had and lost my great love and now must find comfort in being
alone. However, it was the title that
grabbed me, Becalmed… what a wonderful word and a wonderful way to describe a
graceful state of existing. In fact, I
wouldn’t necessarily categorize Becalmed as a typical romance novel, at least
the ones my Grandmother devoured. Rather
it a story about the emotion of loving and the feeling of being loved. In fact, Becalmed, offered us love in its
many forms: familial, friendship, parental and of course the most personal;
mutual erotic attraction combined with the purest admiration for another –
almost a combination of all the types of love combined in one powerful mix, but
certainly a love that puts the lover in a state of bliss – they are becalmed,
complete.
In this way, from memories rather than from hope, I enjoyed
Becalmed and found it restored, just a bit mind you, the notion that there
could be another that would rival the first love in my life and that Normandie
Fischer is no small task! Thank you for
giving your reader a story of the beauty of a romantic, physical relationship
and the completeness it brings to life.
It was encouraging and inspirational and a true pleasure to spend time
with. I recommend Becalmed without
reservation.
About the Author
I write from on board our sailboat or from on shore in
coastal NC — stories of women and families and the things that get to them.
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