I picked this up based on Linda's favorable recommendation, and Ms. Ballard is still batting 1000 for me. What should have been a sticky-icky story - handsome powerful man becomes quadriplegic, down-on-her-luck small town girl becomes his nurse, predictable emotions ensue - wasn't, and I'm still scratching my head trying to figure out why not. Instead, it was moving, sweet, funny, and true. And I didn't even find Moyes' writing particularly graceful, but she created a couple of three-dimensional human beings in a believable and poignant situation, which was enough to keep me reading frantically right until the end, and to feel glad that I had.
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