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Not a bad story but I much preferred her other novel "Table For Five". From cover: "Each summer, Kate Livingston returns to her family's lakeside cottage, a place of simple living and happy times-a place where she now hopes her shy little boy can blossom. But her quiet life gets a bit more interesting with the arrival of an intriguing new neighbour. JD Harris. Although she is a confirmed single mother and knows little of JD's past, Kate is soon drawn into the sweetness of a summer romance and discovers the passion of a lifetime. JD has good reason for being secretive. In a moment of sheer bravery the Washington, D.C., paramedic prevented a terrible tragedy. Overnight the intensely private man became a national hero. He's hardly able to remember who he was before the media frenzy...until he escapes to this lovely, remote part of the Northwest. Now Kate Livingston and her son have rekindled the joy of small pleasures and peace, something he thought he'd never have again. But how long will his blissful anonymity last before reality comes banging at his door?"

It only took me three days to finish this book. Most of the time I was reading it at the Board of Education when I had nothing to do. This book gave terrific insight into the match by giving detailed descriptions on what was going outside making it a unified whole. It especially gave a clear insight into Fischer's mind which repulsed me because it is the exact kind of behaviour one of the Japanese Teacher of English (JTE) exhibits. Outbursts, temper tantrums, verbal abuse (to me signs of megalomania)...these are all fine when you're reading it objectively as in the book but when you experience it first hand--you begin to detest it as I began to detest Fischer for his actions. In the book, the organizers gave many concessions to Fischer's whims. While in one school that I go to, they give too many concessions to, the obviously mentally unstable, JTE's demands. In both of these persons the organizers/higher authority would have done a tremendous amount of good to just let these people go and you wonder why they didn't just do the obvious. To disqualify Fischer for making preposterous demands. To fire the JTE for being mentally unstable. In both of these instances I find that the respective authorites fail to do their task.