The Romantic

Barbara Gowdy First published 2003

About this book

Lacking maternal love since the age of nine, when her mother abandoned the family, Louise Kirk develops a near-lifelong obsession with the boy from across the street--now a man who is incapable of loving her as much as she loves him.

Subjects

  • carence maternelle
  • enfants adoptés
  • fiction
  • fiction, psychological
  • fiction, romance, contemporary
  • friendship
  • loss (psychology)
  • man-woman relationships
  • maternal deprivation
  • motherless families
  • neighborhood
  • neighborhoods
  • romans, nouvelles
  • runaway wives
  • young women
  • young women, fiction