What Became Of You My Love?
By Maeve Haran
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Stella Ainsworth has settled for suburban peace with a pedantic husband, a dissatisfied daughter and a clutch of beloved grandchildren - who all take her presence in their lives for granted.
Then Cameron Keene, her boyfriend from her teenage years who'd left for America to become a rock icon of the Sixties, returns to England.
Much to Stella's astonishment, Cameron announces in an interview that his most famous song, which became a legendary love anthem across the world, was written about Stella, and that he has come back to find her.
What Became of You, My Love? explores the power of music to take us back to our youth, and asks if we can ever relive those giddy times when everything seemed possible.
Maeve Haran
Maeve Haran is an Oxford law graduate who worked in television and journalism before writing her worldwide bestseller Having It All which was translated into 26 languages. She has since written fourteen contemporary and two historical novels plus one work of non-fiction extolling life’s small pleasures. Two of her novels have been shortlisted for the Romantic Novel of the Year award. She has three grown-up children and divides her time between North London and a cottage in the lovely Cuckmere Valley in East Sussex.
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- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5‘What became of you, my love?’ opens with a prologue in 1969. Stella, dressed rather flamboyantly, is the girlfriend of Cameron, an up-and-coming rock star. The book then moves forward to 2016. Stella is in her mid-sixties, married to the somewhat grumpy Matthew. They have a married daughter, and three grandchildren. Stella works as a portrait painter for pets. While preparing a family meal, Stella learns from the radio that Cameron is back in the UK after living for decades in the United States - and that he's looking for her! The book is quite a mixture of storylines, woven together. There are preparations for concerts, and plans to save a local shopping area. There are problems in Stella’s marriage, and also in her daughter's. My favourite subplots, however, were those that involved Stella’s teenage grandson Jesse, who is a delightful young man. Other than Stella and her grandchildren, and Cameron's manager Duncan, I found most of the other characters rather stereotyped, and (in many cases) annoying. While the threads mixed nicely together, I felt that some of them didn't really have enough time for development: in particular the issues Stella has with her husband, who has a sudden apparent change of direction and character. Overall, it made a good light read. I like books that focus on people around my age, but with such a mixture of generations it could well appeal to younger fans of women’s literature too.