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Survived By Her Longtime Companion (2012)

by Chris Paynter(Favorite Author)

4.44 of 5 Votes: 3

ISBN

1935627880 (ISBN13: 9781935627883)

languge

English

genre

Romance

publisher

Blue Feather Books

review 1: What I loved about this book was the way that Chris has bound together two love stories, separated by a generation but brought together and overlaid by Ellie, the central character.Ellie is both raconteur, through her diaries, and agony aunt to Bailey and Chelsea. She uses her diaries to show them how she and Daphne managed to survive adversity to build a loving long term relationship.In how many ways can we say "fine" when we mean anything but ?When we look back on our lives is it what we did that is important, or who we did it with ??An amazing emotional roller coaster that had me crying and laughing and cheering and more than ever grateful for my own companion :-)
review 2: I remember reading the description of Survived by her Longtime Companion by Chris Pay... morenter when it came out and thinking it sounded too sombre for the kind of story I was in the mood for, but ever since I’ve kept hearing how much people have loved this novel. So when it came up as the book of the month on the Facebook lesficReader group, I thought I would take a look at it, and I’m extremely glad that I did. The rekindling of the relationship between the younger protagonists, although harrowing at times, is told with warmth, great observation and some lovely humour. I found this an emotionally gripping novel and the story between Bailey and Chelsea starting as they split up made an interesting and tender romance. There are also many nice touches that flesh out Bailey and Chelsea’s relationship including habits of a long-term relationship that made me cringe because I recognised them: “fine” being an answer that means nothing of the sort – the other four-letter f word as Eleanor says.But it is Eleanor, the older British character, and her great life-long romance with Daphne that completely stole the show for me. Eleanor's attractive, witty, classy, flirtatious with an amusing lack of patience and a friendly but sharp edge to her. This wasn’t something I’d pictured from the blurb, but it was a real draw for me. I also found Eleanor’s first-person narrative through her diaries convincingly British, different from the very American telling of Chelsea and Bailey’s story. Eleanor uses the occasional American term (as she would living in the States for so long) but the feel of her story was very British for me. Her story – an almost lifelong romance with film star Daphne – is completely absorbing. It spans glamorous 50s Hollywood to poignant heart-breaking moments of an ailing film star and old woman. I felt the same way as Bailey and Chelsea at the end – knowing Daphne was dead but wishing the story would re-write itself to make it not so – this was very effective writing less

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