Title: Hold Me Close and Closer Still
Author: Marion Catterall
Publisher: AuthorHouseUK
ISBN: 9781524628253
Pages: 164
Genre: Fiction/Classics
Reviewed by: Michelle Robertson
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Hold Me Close and Closer Still by author Marion Catterall is a romance story reminding us all that love and life doesn’t die, love and life can be renewed and restarted.
Christine Delaney is a newly widowed, a middle age woman content with her retired, home owning, uneventful life, children and grandchildren, that is until she meets Henri Chartress. Immediate sparks were flying between the two and it all felt so natural to her, although she was not brought up to think or feel this way with her strict convent school upbringing. She once said, “I could not see what all the fuss was about sex”, being a very reserved person in the past. She soon found out what she was missing when Henri Chartress entered her life and her bedroom.
Beginning a new life with Henry was an easy thing; Christine just went along with it, enjoyed her new start by living with Henri, who turned out to own a very large estate, with all the amenities such as yachts, traveling, diamonds, money, horses, and much more. Christine is wowed by all of the new luscious items available to her, but really only wants a comfortable normal relationship with Henri. Henri soon expects more out of Christine and starts to push her to her limit. Nothing seems acceptable to Henri anymore. Christine tries to please him, but to no avail. Unhappiness seems near until she meet Henri’s Brother Andre, and a new affair occurs. Will Christine keep her commitment to Henri, or will she be swept away to another new beginning with his brother?
Hold me Close and Closer Still is a very comfortable and relaxed read with developed characters and beautifully depicted scenes. Catterall does an excellent job with her character development and keeps the reader intrigued with the momentum of Christine’s ability to release herself from her own past values and embrace something she never had found earlier in her life. The way the main character is transformed from sort of a bitter loner to a passionate woman throughout the story makes it a very plausible and relatable book for all to enjoy.
