"Coast Road" by Barbara Delinsky - A Story About Love, Marriage and Divorce
Amazing narration and a beautifully written story! A story which begins with jack being woken up in the middle of the night by a phone call from his wife's (read ex-wife's) best friend informing him that she has met with an accident.
He goes to visit her in hospital only for the sake of his two daughters, Samantha and Hope and finds her badly bruised, broken and comatose.
Rachel and Jack had been madly in love with each other and had got married to live blissfully and have two beautiful daughters.
Then he had got very busy with his work and had started travelling more and more.
Then the couple who used to talk and communicate a lot, started drifting apart and ended up feeling abandoned.
Rachel feels so frustrated and abandoned that one day she decides to pack her bag take the two kids and move on.
He is still not sure why Rachel left him six years back and got the divorce.
As he re-enters their life, he finds lot of resistance from Katherine, Rachel's new best friend, Samantha just hates everything about him and Hope is too scared and withdrawn.
He doesn't know how to deal with all this along with the professional crisis he is currently going through.
Rachel is comatose and as days pass by Jack starts realizing the reality and truth about various aspects of her current life, her dreams, aspirations from her friends, her neighbors, their daughters and her paintings.
Story is amazingly written with each character so beautifully etched out.
One of the main characters, Rachel is wonderfully portrayed via what everyone has to say about her as she herself is comatose in a major part of the novel.
Story is depicted from Jack's point of view as he realizes so many facts about his marriage, his wife and their life together that he starts seeing the world with a fresh pair of eyes.
Be it the scenic beauty of the place Rachel has chosen to call home, or the frailty of her in the hospital bed, or be it the dilemma that Jack goes through in the novel, it is all so wonderfully described that you can actually visualize it all and feel very much part of the story.
You would feel jumpy when the phone at Jack's bedside table rings in the middle of the night.
You would want to pray along with Jack and kids that Rachel comes out of coma sooner.
You would want to reach out to Katherine as she tells her own story to Jack one afternoon and give her a hug the way Jack does in the book.
He goes to visit her in hospital only for the sake of his two daughters, Samantha and Hope and finds her badly bruised, broken and comatose.
Rachel and Jack had been madly in love with each other and had got married to live blissfully and have two beautiful daughters.
Then he had got very busy with his work and had started travelling more and more.
Then the couple who used to talk and communicate a lot, started drifting apart and ended up feeling abandoned.
Rachel feels so frustrated and abandoned that one day she decides to pack her bag take the two kids and move on.
He is still not sure why Rachel left him six years back and got the divorce.
As he re-enters their life, he finds lot of resistance from Katherine, Rachel's new best friend, Samantha just hates everything about him and Hope is too scared and withdrawn.
He doesn't know how to deal with all this along with the professional crisis he is currently going through.
Rachel is comatose and as days pass by Jack starts realizing the reality and truth about various aspects of her current life, her dreams, aspirations from her friends, her neighbors, their daughters and her paintings.
Story is amazingly written with each character so beautifully etched out.
One of the main characters, Rachel is wonderfully portrayed via what everyone has to say about her as she herself is comatose in a major part of the novel.
Story is depicted from Jack's point of view as he realizes so many facts about his marriage, his wife and their life together that he starts seeing the world with a fresh pair of eyes.
Be it the scenic beauty of the place Rachel has chosen to call home, or the frailty of her in the hospital bed, or be it the dilemma that Jack goes through in the novel, it is all so wonderfully described that you can actually visualize it all and feel very much part of the story.
You would feel jumpy when the phone at Jack's bedside table rings in the middle of the night.
You would want to pray along with Jack and kids that Rachel comes out of coma sooner.
You would want to reach out to Katherine as she tells her own story to Jack one afternoon and give her a hug the way Jack does in the book.
