Jonas is also married with Liv and they are still Leo's neighbor in Scotland. Clare is married to Art and they are owners of a pricey restaurant in Manhattan. So, Marcus and Charity become jealous because they don't want their stepsister to be happy and live in their house and they are so evil they can even make the Prince Charming err Jonas's life miserable.įast forward to the present time. They are growing up so they fall in love with each other. Then since we have Cinderella err Clare as main protagonist, we must have a leading man so here comes Jonas ( Prince Charming.) However, unlike in the fairy tale, Jonas is just a poor boy neighbor of Leo's family so Jonas ends up as Clare's playmate. Leo is a good-natured and he ends up loving Clare ( okay, this is opposite of the wicked stepmother of Cinderella but wait.) more than his own children, the appalling, manipulative evil stepbrother Marcus and stepsister Charity ( more than the equivalent of Cinderella's wicked stepsisters) that Clare has to live with. Since Leo lives in Scotland, Clare and his mother have to sell their house and join Leo in Scotland. Clare's ( Cinderella) mother is a widow and decides to have a boyfriend, Leo. The story is like a modern retelling of the fairy tale Cinderella. The plot is thin, yes, but reasonably interesting. The prose is very contemporary and readable. It's a light read and a good breather from reading Bolano, Foer and Capote. Especially if the book turns out great or even OK just like this one by Robin Pilcher. You just pick it up and base everything on the title and the writer's name. You don't know the author and haven't read any of his or her previous works. Picking book from nowhere means there is no friend recommending it, no best book lists consulted, no checking on GR, and no reading of blurbs. I still pick books from nowhere and this one is an example. This is a masterful novel from a master storyteller. The Long Way Home will keep readers on the edge of their seats. Does Jonas Fairwether want to knock down the Leo’s house and build a development? It looks like whoever is behind the plan is being driven by financial gain, but there may be an even stronger motive. Claire is immediately suspicious, and even more so when she finds out that another application has been submitted to develop the property. Though Claire distrusts Jonas’s motives, Leo chooses to take his advice to put the house up for public auction rather than sell directly to Art and Claire. Claire’s old flame, Jonas Fairwether, has become Leo’s caretaker and trusted confidant. Art comes up with the idea of turning the place into a conference center, thinking they could purchase the place from Leo and build him a cottage on the property.īut the situation is much more complicated than it seems. Their visit makes clear that Leo is no longer capable of living on his own, but he is determined to stay in his beloved old house. Claire and her husband, Art, leave New York and fly back to Scotland to care for him during the summer. Leo is her last real relative, and his own children rarely check up on the old man. When Claire Barclay receives news that her beloved stepfather has had a stroke, she’s more than a little shaken. In the vein of Maeve Binchy, Rosamunde Pilcher, and Nicholas Sparks, New York Times bestselling author Robin Pilcher returns with his most enchanting novel yet, filled with captivating twists and turns of heart.
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