Never Call it Loving

Two fetching female protagonists grace the pages of a pair of British romance novels, Never Call It Loving by Eileen Ramsay and French Leave by Suzanne Goodwin. In the former, married writer Fern researches the biography of a famed opera singer. When she falls in love with her subject, she must decide between her family and her happiness. In the latter, interpreter Jill Sinclair goes in search of a French soldier she loved and lost during WWII.

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Fern Graham is a happily married writer, living with her writer husband in a modest house. She has two great kids who are on the brink of adulthood. Then she's asked by opera star Pietro Petrungero to write his biography, and her well-ordered life pales beside the glitz and glamour of his jet-setting existence. Soon, the two become lovers, even though Pietro is also married. When the press catches wind of it, their affair wreaks havoc on their families. Does Fern throw away her marriage to be with the man she adored as a fan and now worships as a lover? Ramsay keeps the reader dangling until the very end of the book. Not a romance in the truest sense of the genre definition, this book will appeal to fans of The Bridges of Madison County (1995) and The Horse Whisperer (1995). Shelley Mosley
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