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Star Gazing

By: Linda Gillard
Narrated by: Cathleen McCarron
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Summary

Blind since birth, widowed in her 20s, now lonely in her 40s, Marianne Fraser lives in Edinburgh in elegant, angry anonymity with her sister, Louisa, a successful novelist. Marianne's passionate nature finds solace and expression in music, a love she finds she shares with Keir, a man she encounters on her doorstep one winter's night.

Whilst Marianne has had her share of men attracted to her because they want to rescue her, Keir makes no concession to her condition. He is abrupt to the point of rudeness, and yet oddly kind. But can Marianne trust her feelings for this reclusive stranger who wants to take a blind woman to his island home on Skye, to 'show' her the stars?

©2008 Linda Gillard (P)2011 Hachette Digital

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superb well written book

If you could sum up Star Gazing in three words, what would they be?

excellent interesting thought provoking

What did you like best about this story?

the explanations of the problems a blind person faces daily, the author really understands this. very well written. I have now read everything Linda Gillard has written and feel they are extremely well written that you can't put them down. the descriptions of Skye are really great.

Which character – as performed by Cathleen McCarron – was your favourite?

Very difficult to choose between the blind person and the gentleman she meets.

Was there a moment in the book that particularly moved you?

All of it.

Any additional comments?

All her other books are equally as good. I think my favorite might be The Glass Guardian but very difficult to choose. They all are linked/based in Skye thoroughly enjoyed all her books. A greagt Read.

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Absolutely delightful

I thoroughly enjoyed this book. It was so insightful into the world of someone who is blind. Written and narrated beautifully. It's a book I will remember for a long time. Thank you, Linda Gillard.

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Loved this book

Call me sentimental, but I loved this book. It made me cry- which is OK. It ended the way it should have but a little bit of me was hoping it would go the other way.
Marianne, blind from birth lives with her sister in Edinburgh. One night whilst trying to open her front door she drops her keys and a kind stranger walking by helps her. They have a rapport but it is fleeting.
They bump into each other again and Keir (the kind stranger) starts to pursue her- but as a friend not a lover (yet).
They go on a mini-holiday to his home on Skye and become lovers.
Marianne's backstory is that she was widowed in her 20's and lost a baby when her husband got killed on the oil rigs off shore. As it happens, Keir also works on the rigs, but he has a special job as a forecaster of accidental/weather events. He has a second sight which he can't explain but has predicted several large events in the past. He says he sensed her distress on the night she dropped her keys.

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