No Ordinary Love

By Mary Dempsey

Keara Fitzgerald, a married woman with an intoxicating mix of sex and manipulation, spends her days maneuvering through a web of lies and passion: all the while fighting the urge to drink. Keara... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1585009083
• ISBN13: 9781585009084
• Release Date: December 1999
• Publisher: 1st Book Library
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.1" x 8.0"

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No Ordinary Love, No Ordinary Novel

Among the novels I've read that deal with protagonists battling their own demons, Mary Dempsey's "No Ordinary Love" stands out. From the opening lines to its wrenching conclusion, this startling novel has the ring of truth. "Reality check," author Dempsey says on the first page. Amen to that. Readers will find themselves dealing with Dempsey's insistence that they confront the naked truths of her characters' human frailties, especially her heroine, Keara Fitzgerald, who battles substance addiction, a gripping extramarital affair and the demands of family, while trying to hold her fraying life together. Dempsey's is a compelling tale of a woman who is truly torn between two men, while trying to steer clear of her addictions, the safe harbors of her past. Meanwhile, she is trying to serve as some kind of role model for her teenage daughter. The novel defines the term page-turner. If this first novel is an example of what is to come from this gifted author, I anxiously await her next book.