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Synopsis

London 1974 – and Peter Greenberg is riding high. Thanks to his magic touch, every play he puts on in Theatreland is a hit and the money is rolling in. The young man’s empire feels secure – but then everything changes. One evening, he calls in to see a rival’s musical and falls head over heels in love.

The beautiful Paris-born dancer who catches his eye is Nadine – a major star in the making. Like Greenberg, the young dancer too is in love – but with someone else. The eternal triangle is complicated by the birth of a child, and by tragic secrets that go back before World War Two; slowly, those secrets reveal themselves in a drama that out-performs anything on the West End stage or Broadway.

Nadine is a poignant story of unrequited love, a love that will one day be returned – and in a most unexpected way…

My review

This book grabbed me by the throat, and I wasn’t prepared for it…

Normally I have no problems in reading a whole book in a short time span. But here I needed to take regularly a break, just to digest what I’ve read.

Nadine is such a tragic character, whose only wish is to be loved by the person she loves.

We get to know her through the eyes of Peter Greenberg, a famous name in the English world of theatre. When he sees Nadine for the first time, he falls head over heels in love with her.

But his love is not reciprocal, as Nadine is in a relationship with a married man.

When Nadine finds out she is pregnant, the story only gets darker, as Nadine’s mental state.

This story takes place over several years , which is necessary to show the readers that sometimes a few wrong decisions can change the future of more than just you alone.

The actions that Nadine took, have such an effect everyone around her.

And Peter never has the chance to get over Nadine. Even when he tried to move on with his life, the streak of bad luck keeps chasing him.

Like I said before, this story just got me…

The sadness hung over me the whole time and I was keeping on wishing for a silver lining for all the parties we get to know in the story. But just like in real life, not everybody gets a well deserved happy ending…

Reading this story gets you all back down to earth, realizing that sometimes your own life story isn’t so bad after all…