FALLING is a book about finding love and family and finding
it when and where you least expect it. Emma and
Dominic, are from different worlds but are destined to meet
and perhaps be together forever?
Emma Montague flees to New York and leaves her upper-crust
British life. Unwilling to live up to her snobby parents
expectations, they expect Emma to marry royalty or
PLU (People Like Us). Emma has a
successful career in banking in New York City and enjoys all
the fringe benefits: A luxurious apartment, designer
clothes, many relationships that head nowhere, and a
healthy bank account. Tired of banking and the City life,
Emma wants to try something new, something creative in a new
location. Having a friend who lives in Westport,
Connecticut, she heads there and immediately loves the area.
She finds a seaside cottage that could use a facelift but
the rent is within her budget. Her landlord, Dominic, is
handsome, friendly and helps her move her heavy boxes and
offers to build her a bookcase for her many books. Dominic
lives next door with his six year old son, Jesse. They were
abandoned by Jesse's mother, soon after his birth and she
has never returned. Dominic works as a handyman and is a
bartender at a trendy in spot. Although they are
from completely different
backgrounds, Emma and Dominic begin a friendship
that quickly blossoms into love. Emma has never met anyone
like Dominic. She feels happy. She feels secure. She
feels she is home. She begins to decorate the dilapidated
cottage and gets decorating jobs and is successful. Is this
the life she has been looking for? Are her dreams coming
true?
Jesse, is extremely spoiled by his father and he is not used
to sharing him with anyone. He is wary of Emma and
questions her arrival into their lives. Emma tries hard to
gain his trust. She takes him with her when she adopts a
kitten and offers to share the kitten with Jesse. Pancake
breakfasts made just for him. Isn't that enough to earn his
affection? They begin to become closer, when his long, lost
mother arrives in town asking for a second chance with her
son.
The dysfunction with Emma's parents and Dominic's parents
distressed me and I did not care for any of them. Dominic
was my hero and I fell in love with his uncomplicated way of
looking at life. He was a delight and loves Jesse and Emma
without reservation. Emma spent too much time questioning
if they would be able to make it with such diverse
backgrounds. The major surprise in the story was truly a
surprise and ruined this book for me. Jane Green is a
skilled story teller and I have enjoyed so many of her
books. I prefer her light, breezy romantic stories with a
happy ending, but FALLING was not my cup of tea. Perhaps next
time?
When Emma Montague left the strict confines of upper-
crust British life for New York, she felt sure it would
make her happy. Away from her parents and expectations,
she felt liberated, throwing herself into Manhattan life
replete with a high-paying job, a gorgeous apartment, and
a string of successful boyfriends. But the cutthroat
world of finance and relentless pursuit of more began to
take its toll. This wasn’t the life she wanted either.
On the move again, Emma settles in the picturesque
waterfront town of Westport, Connecticut, a world apart
from both England and Manhattan. It is here that she
begins to confront what it is she really wants from her
life. With no job, and knowing only one person in town,
she channels her passion for creating beautiful spaces
into remaking the dilapidated cottage she rents from
Dominic, a local handyman who lives next door with his
six-year-old son.
Unlike any man Emma has ever known, Dominic is confident,
grounded, and committed to being present for his son
whose mother fled shortly after he was born. They become
friends, and slowly much more, as Emma finds herself
feeling at home in a way she never has before.
But just as they start to imagine a life together as a
family, fate intervenes in the most shocking of ways. For
the first time, Emma has to stay and fight for what she
loves, for the truth she has discovered about herself, or
risk losing it all.
In a novel of changing seasons, shifting lives, and
selfless love, a story unfolds—of one woman’s far-
reaching journey to discover who she is truly meant to
be…
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