Review: The Carpenter's Lady by Barbara Delinsky

Title: The Carpenter's Lady
Author: Barbara Delinsky
Publisher: Harper Collins
Publication Date: July 26th 2005 (first published 1983)
Edition: ebook (336 pages)

The Carpenter's Lady by Barbara Delinsky

My rating: 4 of 5 stars


Debra Barry needs a new start after a divorce. As a successful script writer, she can write from anywhere, so she leaves New York City for New Hampshire. Within days, she has purchased a house she loves. The house is in need of major renovation. She hires master carpenter, Graham Reid, a man experiencing his own emotional termoil, to do the work. There is an almost instant attraction between them, though neither wants to risk more painful emotional involvement.

This is my third Barbara Delinsky book, and, as with the previous titles, I enjoyed the characters and got to know them as they came alive in my mind. This book, however, was more focused on the romantic, and not so much on community and the whole of life as my previous Barbara Delinsky titles, Lake News and An Accidental Woman, both of which remain two of my favorite books at the top of my rereads. This book also has more descriptions of sex, though it is by no means graphic, by today's standards.