From Publishers Weekly
Gullible, idealistic young Ohioan Frankie Grant arrives in New York with little more than high expectations, plus memories of her dead parents and brother. She meets middle-aged political reporter Henry "Mac" MacIver, who generously offers her lodging in his apartment. Their relationship begins platonically, but soon, Frankie and this worldly, intense man become lovers. Despite their disparate backgrounds and ages, Frankie readily assimilates herself into Mac's full life. His abundant affection assuages her loneliness, and Frankie rounds out her days by taking temporary office jobs. But problems emerge: Mac hesitates about divorcing his elegant, estranged wife, and Frankie feels embarrassed when his two youngsters visit. Mac's investigation of a journalist's baffling disappearance disconcerts Frankie even more, since someone seems determined to halt his sleuthing. Leahy (Family Truths describes this couple's daily routines, delights, and tribulations with an empathy and veracity that will have readers avidly turning the pages.
Copyright 1986 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Copyright 1986 Reed Business Information, Inc.
From Library Journal
Fresh off the bus from Ohio, young Frankie Grant inadvertently stumbles into the midst of the weekly round-up of prostitutes at New York's Waldorf Astoria. Released by a sharp-eyed detective, she is put in the care of New York Times reporter H.J. MacIver, who after a token protest takes her home for the night. From this somewhat implausible beginning develops a genuine "love affair," complicated by Mac's inability to come to terms with his estranged wife, the disappearance of a colleague whose fate has become an obsession for him, and a hidden part of Frankie's past. A pleasant, leisurely tale that takes the reader on a tour of Manhattan, the novel is unfortunately marred by both the weak beginning and an unexpectedly abrupt ending, with the final result a disappointment. Judith A. Gifford, Salve Regina Coll. Lib., Newport, R.I.
Copyright 1986 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Copyright 1986 Reed Business Information, Inc.
