Book Review: The Husband by Deirdre Purcell

Romantic rollercoaster leaves serious questions for heroine.

"Am I now just one of those moonstruck wafting heroines of romantic fiction?” asks Marian Lescher to herself as she embarks on a passionate affair which quickly sees her divorcing her steady, kind, doctor husband, Peter Black, and marrying Daniel Lynch, also a doctor and a colleague of Peter’s.

Set between Chicago, and the fictional village of Glanmilish, Co Laois, where Daniel is from, this novel is romantic fiction that sometimes rises above that somewhat reductive label, with its vivid descriptions of place and the elements as well as psychological insights.