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Touchwood

By: Karin Kallmaker
Narrated by: Angela Dawe
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Twenty-nine-year-old Rayann Germaine, betrayed by her lover, flees in grief and rage. She meets book-store owner Louisa Thatcher, a woman many years her senior, who offers shelter and work...and soon, passion, and a loving place in her life.

But Rayann encounters challenges to this new love - from friends who question its wisdom, from her mother who disapproves of this liaison with a woman her own contemporary, from Louisa's son who learns for the first time his mother's true sexuality.

And there are profound differences between Rayann and Louisa themselves, two women who come from dramatically different places in the spectrum of age and life experience. Their only common ground seems to be the searing attraction that they both try to deny....

©1991 Karin Kallmaker (P)2021 Tantor Contemporary Romance

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Wow - I’ve read (or listened) to a few books by Karen Kallmaker but this is my favourite yet.
I loved this and probably because I can relate totally to Louisa; the 56 year old who remained closeted from friends and family for many years carrying fear of the consequences of her sexuality being discovered. Sadly unlike Louisa I don’t have a 29 lover who adores me…dream on.
And yes I’m still in love with Angela Dawe’s voice too.

A teasing age-gap romance

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The age difference between the characters in this book is primarily used as a vehicle to consider the changes 20 plus years has meant to the acceptance of lesbianism and what that has meant to how lives can be lived. This is a thoughtful and thought provoking read and well worth the time.

The impact of time

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age gap brilliant story well written, set in end of 20th century, families unacccepting, many older women fearful and closeted, but the young have more hope and openness about who they are.
loved from start to finish, especially the narration.

excellent

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I have never read this book before but if I had it would already be in my top 5! If anybody is going to give a great story it’s worth in narration it’s Angela Dawe. Louisa’s voice is knee tremblingly gooood. Truly outstanding and now in my top 5 audiobooks for re-listens.

Outstanding

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This is a great lingering story. A lovely, slow build relationship and a mixture of characters makes this a beautiful 'must read' story.

Lovely slow burner!

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I don't always like age gap romances however I think I really enjoyed the history part of coming out and what this entailed for the queen community. this story showed growth with Louisa and her past and it was eye opening however I think Rayann was a good catalyst for motivation regarding her own thoughts. I absolutely loved this book it was well written. I also love this narrator I felt she really captured the characters well and I was able to really envision the dynamics of their relationships.

loved the history of this story

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KK is such an excellent writer for getting across feelings. I love her books and this has an added interesting dynamic. Audible should definitely record the follow up - Watermark - as it is bound to be another hit. Angela Dawe is a good narrator and I would like to rate her 4.5 out of 5 for her narration here. She brings a lot of positives to the story but, imo, she needs to develop a younger sounding voice for younger characters.
My eyesight is failing and I cannot read a whole novel, so PLEASE AUDIBLE can we have WATERMARK as an audiobook soon?

Another good one from Karin Kallmaker

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Plus Catalogue so worth a listen because it's free ! A KK age gap story and a little similar to some of her other's but still enjoyable. This is one of the author's older story's according to the blurb at the end, and it's a surprise there is little difference in her work which continues to present day ! The MC's deserve their HEA !

Plus Catalogue....

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The narration was nice - pleasant to listen to. However the story Angela had to work with was sickly sweet. Quite weird. I’ve been in a relationship with a woman nearly twice my age - this story made we cringe throughout it. Mmmh. My least favourite wlw book I’ve listened to.

Cringey throughout

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