Touchwood, Karin Kallmaker
Touchwood, Karin Kallmaker
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Touchwood

Author: Karin Kallmaker

Narrator: Angela Dawe

Unabridged: 7 hr 48 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 12/14/2021

Categories: Fiction, Lgbtq+, Romance


Synopsis

Twenty-nine-year-old Rayann Germaine, betrayed by her lover, flees in grief and rage. She meets book store owner Louisa Thatcher, a woman many years her senior, who offers shelter and work . . . and soon, passion, and a loving place in her life.

But Rayann encounters challenges to this new love—from friends who question its wisdom, from her mother who disapproves of this liaison with a woman her own contemporary, from Louisa's son who learns for the first time his mother's true sexuality.

And there are profound differences between Rayann and Louisa themselves, two women who come from dramatically different places in the spectrum of age and life experience. Their only common ground seems to be the searing attraction that they both try to deny . . .

About Karin Kallmaker

Karin Kallmaker has always believed that love is the universal story. She's been writing love stories about women who make the radical choice to love other women since 1989 and has multiple bestsellers and award winners to her credit. She's also a Golden Crown Literary Society Trailblazer. Her longer novels are published by Bella Books and shorter works from her own imprint, Romance and Chocolate Ink. Her latest release is the historical romance Knight of Nights, where, once again, women are the heroes of their own lives.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Heinerway on September 25, 2021

What can I say? It’s a classic. And I’ve read it a couple of times! In Karin Kallmaker’s words: The year is 1990. The first President of the United States to utter the word “lesbian” won’t run for that office for another year. The right to marry wasn’t a high priority on anyone’s list. What was? A sil......more

Goodreads review by Gaby on March 31, 2022

This is the 30th-anniversary edition of this novel. Touchwood was originally published in 1991 by the now extinct Naiad Press and later released as a second edition in 2021 by Bella Books. To say that a sapphic book has been published so many years ago is an accomplishment on its own (there were few......more

Goodreads review by Leah on August 05, 2023

Decided to reread this one. It’s a 27 year age gap! The characters are 29 and 56. That was a lot to overcome for me. Like, the older character has a son that is older than the main character! Other than that, this was a pleasant read considering it was released in 1991. It definitely made me interes......more

Goodreads review by Jem on December 05, 2014

I've come to the same conclusion as Bib, this is "An enjoyable May-December lesbian romance." Rayann, a 30-something wood sculptor, is viciously betrayed by her girlfriend. She runs away and finds refuge in the upper apartment of a woman who runs a small bookstore. The woman is old enough to be her......more