Although Lulu and Gerald were once madly in love and were
even married for a very short time, they managed to live in the same village on
the island of Mallorca for 60 years, without ever crossing paths, until one day
. . .
Author Peter Nichols opens the tale of this couple in 2005,
when a chance (or is it?) meeting between Lulu and Gerald ends in an argument and
unfortunate fall that leads to their demises. He then takes the reader back through
time, a decade more or less at a time, to learn how events in their lives
brought them to their ultimate fate. It isn’t until the end of the book that
the reader finds out why this marriage did not survive the honeymoon.
Along the way, Nichols introduces a colorful cast of characters
including Lulu’s son Luc and Gerald’s daughter Aegina, who are both still
seeking their real adult identities and at the same time are sorting through
feelings for each other. Regular summer residents at The Rocks resort owned by
Lulu, a smattering of locals, and a couple of friendly, unscrupulous strangers
round out the cast of this trip back through time.
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