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Face the Wind and Fly
Perfect summer reading!
Fans of Christina Jones' Tickled Pink and Kate Glanville's Heartstones will love Jenny Harper's new contemporary women's fictions series.
She builds wind farms, he detests them. Can they ever generate love?
After fifteen happy years of marriage, Kate Courtenay discovers that her charismatic novelist husband is spending more and more of his time with a young fan. She throws herself into her work, a controversial wind farm that’s stirring up tempers in the local community. Sparks fly when she goes head to head against its most outspoken opponent, local gardener Ibsen Brown – a man with a past of his own. But a scheme for a local community garden brings the sparring-partners together, producing the sort of electricity that threatens to short-circuit the whole system.
Fans of Christina Jones' Tickled Pink and Kate Glanville's Heartstones will love Jenny Harper's new contemporary women's fictions series.
She builds wind farms, he detests them. Can they ever generate love?
After fifteen happy years of marriage, Kate Courtenay discovers that her charismatic novelist husband is spending more and more of his time with a young fan. She throws herself into her work, a controversial wind farm that’s stirring up tempers in the local community. Sparks fly when she goes head to head against its most outspoken opponent, local gardener Ibsen Brown – a man with a past of his own. But a scheme for a local community garden brings the sparring-partners together, producing the sort of electricity that threatens to short-circuit the whole system.
286 pages, Paperback
First published January 17, 2014
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October 10, 2023
Face the Wind and Fly tackles the topical issue of renewable energy in the face of community opposition. Kate Courtenay is a successful engineer but faces a challenge when asked to take the lead for a wind farm project in her own community. She faces strong and very vocal opposition. I actually quite like wind turbines myself but can see why people think they're unsightly. However, it's not just her work life where things are difficult. Her son Ninian seems to be turning into a truculent teen who seems more perceptive than his mother! Her husband Andrew is considerably older than her and a successful author but is he seeing rather too much of one particular young fan?. A vocal opponent of the wind farm is gardener Ibsen who has a very personal reason to be opposed. They are clearly attracted to each other but fight their feelings due to their being on opposing sides. I really enjoyed this well written and perceptive novel and learned a lot myself about wind power. I must also mention how much I enjoy the setting of the novel, the fictional Heartlands, just outside Edinburgh which the author describes so well.
September 1, 2018
What a wonderful book, beautifully written and I would highly recommend it to anyone wanting a nice feel good book.
December 17, 2018
Twists and turns
Strange how history repeats itself. Interestingnidea of Andrew also being a novelist. Simple to read so good for a winter's evening read.
Strange how history repeats itself. Interestingnidea of Andrew also being a novelist. Simple to read so good for a winter's evening read.
October 5, 2022
What a lovely story. Some reversed roles in this tale, easy to like, or in some cases dislike, characters & a few surprises along the way. Thoroughly recommend
August 3, 2014
This was just an ok read for me. The story seemed interesting and after reading the description I thought I was going to thoroughly enjoy this book. However the story just fell flat.
I didn't feel a connection with any of the characters and I didn't have much sympathy for Kate when she was faced with the harsh realities of her marriage. The story didn't seem to move at the right pace either. There were times the story moved along at a good pace and it was easy to keep reading and at other times the story seemed to drag along. During those times it was easy to put the bok aside and do something else. I found myself checking often to see how much more I had to go to finish the book.
I won't be recommending this book to anyone.
I didn't feel a connection with any of the characters and I didn't have much sympathy for Kate when she was faced with the harsh realities of her marriage. The story didn't seem to move at the right pace either. There were times the story moved along at a good pace and it was easy to keep reading and at other times the story seemed to drag along. During those times it was easy to put the bok aside and do something else. I found myself checking often to see how much more I had to go to finish the book.
I won't be recommending this book to anyone.
October 9, 2014
I enjoyed this and it had an intruiging different plot that included some green issues. The writing style was good and the author did a greatjob of giving me a feel of the setting. Readable romance with a fresh modern feel.
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