The Love We All Wait for

by Lee Doyle

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0981727107
• ISBN13: 9780981727103
• Release Date: September 2008
• Publisher: Komenar Publishing
• Length: 286 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.2" x 9.2"

Customer Reviews

Lovely, touching, could not put it down

I loved this book. Sheila's story, the emotive descriptions of Salinas Valley. It made me miss the California I never experienced, having grown up in NYC. Like any good piece of fiction, after I was done I wanted to know how much of it was true, wanted to learn more about the author's life.

A Satisfying, Evocative Read

I finished The Love We All Wait For this morning. A very pleasurable read. I thought Doyle's evocation of "place" was amazing. Just that time spent on the gas line in the opening pages made that town-with-barely-a-pulse (and Sheila's unhappy intimacy with it) so visceral for me. Doyle pulls it off again in Sheila's alienated weekend in San Francisco's Haight-Ashbury district several putrifying years after the Summer of Love. Other reviewers have debated whether this is "chick-lit". I'm not qualified to judge that, but this 51 year old dude enjoyed The Love We All Wait For very much, and rooted whole hog for the young heroine.

Couldn't Put Down

This book is one you "can't put down." I read it in one sitting. The characters are interesting, the plot realistic, and the ending unpredictable but believable. Sheila, the main character, is a seventeen year old who is experiencing her first love (or what she thinks is love) which brings her insecurities and sexual dilemmas. She also is wrestling with a difficult family situation as well as complicated peer relationships. All of us can relate to the happenings in her life, and I eagerly turned each page to see how Sheila would deal with the crisis of the moment. The Love We All Wait For offers us an opportunity to revive personal memories as well as offers us a good read. It also presents us with a chance to discover a new author. Ms. Doyle, we hope you will write more books!

Engrossing Fast Read, Beautifully Subtle Ending

This was a suggestion by my girlfriend and my first reaction was "Uh Chick Lit!", but I was very wrong. Instead I found a wonderfully mature story set in the confusing, convoluted 'Me First' Seventies. This is the story of a Seventeen year old girl/woman who discovers the shelter of adolescence can end rather abruptly and reacts as many of us did. This is definitely not a child's/teen's book, but a very mature look at the bumpy roads and paths that we often find ourselves on in life and of how we do, or do not, navigate them. Sheila's world is being jolted by the choices of others and she has to figure out how to cope, sometimes with intelligence and sometimes with immaturity. But one way or the other she will have to walk those bumpy paths and decide on either maturity or disillusion. There are some potentially shocking scenes in this book that might be considered over the top if not for the loving character development and the very real situations that Sheila is living. I recommend this to anyone looking for a well written, fast-paced look into the teenage psyche.

Emotional, direct, and charming

This story is true to life. Sheila takes a journey many of us must take. It's a journey filled with blessings, pain, joy, adversity -- the experiences of life that can bring growth. And like Sheila, if we are lucky enough to throw our arms up and say, 'I did it...I made it,' life just becomes sweeter and deeper.