Touchwood

By: Karin Kallmaker

Narrated by: Angela Dawe

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....

©1991 Karin Kallmaker (P)2021 Tantor

Read the book 30 years ago

I read this book around 30 years ago. I don’t usually read books twice but with the amazing Angela Dawe doing the narration, I had to get. The book reminded me of how far we’ve come and where I don’t want the big scary orange man lead us back to.

Very Good

I am reminded, of a more modern version, of Desert, of the Heart - a lesbian, romance classic. There is, also, just such a great, lesbian community, in this one, like in Painted Moon. Kallmaker wrote a good addition, to the May-December subgenre.

Oh wow this is awesome!

This was amazing! I absolutely loved everything about this storyline, the characters Especially Lou and Ray. I loved the back stories and details of emotions and interactions between each chapter. The Narration was on point. This is definitely going in my favorites. 10s across the board!

Ageless

I loved this story, it is truly ageless. So well written and Angela Dawe made this book come to life.

Touch Me

Wow ! What a great story ! I am so glad I found it. Will look to see if this Author has more of this !