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    Necessary Madness: London Lives, #1
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    London Lives Series

    By Jenn Crowell

    3.5/5

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    About this series

    In this absorbing new novel, Jenn Crowell plumbs the depths of long-distance love and emotional healing with her trademark lyricism and wit.

    Best friends Gloria and Jascha forged a tight bond over their mutual experiences of grief, but kept their mutual attraction at bay out of respect for their late spouses. When Gloria suffers a terrifying medical scare on the first anniversary of her husband's death, however, Jascha makes a huge leap and flies from London to Washington, D.C. to profess his love for her. 

    Thrilled by his confession, Gloria impulsively invites Jascha to move in with her and her young son. What begins as domestic bliss soon gives way to Jascha's frightening descent into PTSD that will push the couple to the brink of breakup and breakdown. Can they both face their demons before it's too late?

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCarnelian Press
    Release dateJan 1, 2008
    Necessary Madness: London Lives, #1

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      Necessary Madness: London Lives, #1
      Necessary Madness: London Lives, #1

      Necessary Madness: London Lives, #1

      Jenn Crowell
      4/5
      4/5

      From the critically acclaimed author of Etched On Me comes a poignant, moving story of resilience and second chances.  After nine short but blissful years of marriage, American expat Gloria Burgess's world shatters when her British artist husband dies of leukemia. Estranged from her mother, utterly alone in her adopted home of London, she must now struggle to raise her young son on her own -- and fight the temptation to sink into the self-absorption of grief that once drove her father to suicide. As she puts on a retrospective of her late husband's work, Gloria finds solace in the form of an empathetic friendship with a charming widower, and agrees to let her mother cross the Atlantic to stay with her for their first visit in a decade. The reunion could drive the wedge between them deeper ... or offer Gloria a priceless opportunity for regaining equilibrium and wholeness. Will she seize the opportunity, or turn her back on a new beginning?

      From the critically acclaimed author of Etched On Me comes a poignant, moving story of resilience and second chances.  After nine short but blissful years of marriage, American expat Gloria Burgess's world shatters when her British artist husband dies of leukemia. Estranged from her mother, utterly alone in her adopted home of London, she must now struggle to raise her young son on her own -- and fight the temptation to sink into the self-absorption of grief that once drove her father to suicide. As she puts on a retrospective of her late husband's work, Gloria finds solace in the form of an empathetic friendship with a charming widower, and agrees to let her mother cross the Atlantic to stay with her for their first visit in a decade. The reunion could drive the wedge between them deeper ... or offer Gloria a priceless opportunity for regaining equilibrium and wholeness. Will she seize the opportunity, or turn her back on a new beginning?

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