A Theory of Love, Margaret Bradham Thornton
A Theory of Love, Margaret Bradham Thornton
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A Theory of Love
A Novel

Author: Margaret Bradham Thornton

Narrator: Faye Adele

Unabridged: 6 hr 32 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: HarperAudio

Published: 05/08/2018


Synopsis

A follow-up to her successful debut Charleston and set in the world’s most glamorous landscapes, this moving new love story from Margaret Bradham Thornton draws on a metaphor of entanglement theory to ask: when two people collide, are they forever attached no matter where they are? Helen Gibbs, a British journalist on assignment on the west coast of Mexico, meets Christopher Delavaux, an intriguing half-French, half-American lawyer-turned-financier who has come alone to surf. Living lives that never stop moving, from their first encounter in Bermeja to marriage in London and travels to such places as Saint-Tropez, Tangier, and Santa Clara, Helen and Christopher must decide how much they exist for themselves and how much they exist for each other.In an effort to build his firm, Christopher leads a life full of speed and ambition with little time for Helen and even less when he suspects his business partner of illegal activity. Helen, a reluctant voyeur to Christopher’s world of power and position, searches far and wide for reporting work that will “take a bite out of her soul”—refugees in Calais, a mountain climber in Chamonix, an orphaned circus performer in Cuba. A Theory of Love captures the ambivalence at the center of human experience: does one reside in the familiar comforts of solitude or dare to open one’s heart and risk having it broken? Set in some of the most picturesque places in the world, this novel questions what it means to love someone and leaves us wondering—can nothing save us but a fall?

About Margaret Bradham Thornton

Margaret Bradham Thornton is the author of Charleston and the editor of Tennessee Williams’s Notebooks, for which she received the Bronze ForeWord Magazine Book of the Year Award in autobiography/memoir and the C. Hugh Holman Prize for the best volume of southern literary scholarship published in 2006, given by the Society for the Study of Southern Literature. She is a graduate of Princeton University and lives in Florida.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Janelle Janson on July 18, 2018

Thank you so much to Ecco Books for providing my free copy of A THEORY OF LOVE by Margaret Bradham Thornton - all opinions are my own. Helen Gibbs is a British journalist working on a profile piece when she meets the aspiring investment banker Christopher Delavaux off the coast of Mexico. They quickl......more

Goodreads review by Sharon on June 12, 2018

Christopher and Helen meet at a resort on the Mexican coast. They enjoyed each others company. As a journalist Helen has the freedom to travel...so she goes with Christopher to these exotic places. One day out of the blue he asks her to marry him. She accepts and they have wonderful times in European......more

Goodreads review by Dkbbookgirl on September 07, 2018

Brilliant Beautiful An absolutely lovely read......more

Goodreads review by Jaclyn on July 03, 2018

Great......more

Goodreads review by Abby on July 19, 2018

A Theory of Love is an excellent, often heart wrenching story of love, forgiveness and how we search our souls for answers..often with the painful realization that the "best answer" is the hardest path to take. Thornton builds the characters of Helen and Christopher with precision but always careful......more