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The Touch | 
 enlarge | Author: Julie Myerson
Publisher: Doubleday
Category: Book
List Price: £15.00
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Rating:  2 reviews
Sales Rank: 2745065
Media: Hardcover
Pages: 308
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1
Dimensions (in): 8.8 x 6.5 x 1
ISBN: 0385475071
Dewey Decimal Number: 823.914
EAN: 9780385475075
ASIN: 0385475071
Publication Date: June 1996
Availability: Usually dispatched within 1-2 business days
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Condition: Dispatched from the US -- Expect delivery in 2-3 weeks. Former library book. 1st ed. in the U.S.A. 1996 Hardcover. Shows definite wear, and perhaps considerable marking on inside. Your purchase benefits Books for Africa!
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 Spoiled by a repulsive character... September 25, 2007
Love Books (England)
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
Donna is crippled by a dreadful muscular condition which may, or may not be pschosomatic. Her boyfriend, Will, adores and cares for her but is not above noticing other women. Donna's sister, Gayle, who has a three year old daughter from a brief and unpleasant sexual relationship, has never got on with Will. All three of them find an apparently mugged, elderly man in the park - Frank Chapman. He is the repulsive character, a violent and vile person and a religious fanatic. Gayle, a nurse, builds up a relationship with him while he's in hospital and he convinces her to let him try to 'heal' Donna. The trouble is, once Donna is healed, the previously stable relationship between the three main characters starts to go strangely wrong.
I think Julie Myerson is a fantastic writer and there is much to admire in this book. Her descriptive writing is superb and the character of Gayle's daughter, Kitty, is so alive that I believed she was real. But what stopped me liking this book is the horrible, horrible Frank. I just could not believe that Gayle and Will would go on visiting him for so long (even though it turns out to be a reason for them to see one another) and I certainly don't believe they would invite him to their holiday home. I was living in fear of Kitty coming to some harm at his hands and can't believe that Gayle wasn't. And the end which could have been beautifully redemptive, wasn't.
It's a good book, but not one I'd want to read twice.
 Disappointing.... September 10, 2007
jackcomeback
After being intrigued by Myerson's writing style after reading The Story of You, I was most disappointed in this effort.
The story only starts to grab you in the last couple of chapters as the characters lives start to unravel. Thats if you manage to perservere through the mad ramblings of the main character that over-power any notion that this book does actually have a plot somewhere underneath!
While The Story of You truly explored it's characters, this book merely skims over the top of them and you can never truly engage or relate with them.
The book ends so abruptly I actually thought I was missing pages!
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