- Hardcover: 304 pages
- Publisher: William Morrow & Company (Aug 2002)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0060081651
- ISBN-13: 978-0060081652
- Product Dimensions: 23.1 x 15.5 x 2.5 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 5,102,770 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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I was thirty-three years old when my husband walked out into the filed one morning and never came back and I went in one quick leap from wife to widow. Read the first page
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I was thirty-three years old when my husband walked out into the filed one morning and never came back and I went in one quick leap from wife to widow. Read the first page
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
I actually read this after the sequel, The Last of the Honky Tonk Angels. And I have to confess I got them out of the library, not from Amazon. I didn't realise that The Second Coming of Lucy Hatch was the first book - well, with a title like that, you wouldn't, would you? Anyway, I enjoyed the second one so much I got the first one out too. If you like Anne Tyler, Elizabeth Berg and Sara Lewis, you'll love these. This and the sequel tell the story of the eponymous Lucy Hatch, whose farmer husband is killed in an accident after they've been married for 13 years, and it's only then she realises that she has been living a very unsatisfactory emotional life. She moves back to her home town and after only a few weeks meets a new man, Ash, who sweeps her off her feet and she discovers what she's been missing all these years. Of course, she feels guilty about this all happening so soon after becoming a widow, which is basically what this book is all about.
Not a great deal happens - in the second book Ash's daughter from a previous marriage comes on the scene - but her characters are believable and likeable and you just hope that things will turn out OK for them. Not great literature, but well-written and satisfying to read. I suppose it's the sort of book that will appeal mainly to women, but there's nothing wrong with that.
I see that there's a third book in the series. Not quite sure if there's enough to be got out of the material, but will be interested to see.
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9 of 10 people found the following review helpful
Amazing work for a new writer
3 July 2003
Format:Paperback
This book is amazingly well written for a first novel. A mix between a romance novel and a coming of age story, it is both touching and joyful.
Lucy Hatch's husband dies in an accident, and Lucy moves back home to recover. Shortly after she arrives, Lucy meets a man that "rocks her world" literally and figuratively. Most of the story focuses on Lucy's processing what love has been for, what is has not been, and what she wants it to be.
I don't typically read romance novels, but stayed with this one because of the depth of Lucy's feelings for her husband, her family, and the new man in her life. It would be easy to assume that Lucy's marriage was loveless, and that she finds true love at last. Underlying this all is the concept that one can only love someone as best and as far as they will let you.
I recommend this book highly, and can't wait for Marsha Moyer's next one.
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
Moyer hatches a fun first novel
21 Mar 2003
Format:Hardcover
I read this one in a day - it was engrossing from start to finish. Light and sweet, not too much different than your average romance novel, but with a little more spark and substance. Normally, I tend to take a cynical bent on books like this, but it was such a pleasure to read, I set my cynic aside for the entire novel.
Thirty-three year old Lucy finds a new life for herself when her husband (whom she did not love) of fourteen years dies unexpectedly. She is unencumbered and free to make her life over. She moves back to her hometown and immediately becomes captivated by heartthrob country singer/carpenter Ash Farrell. Their relationship takes on the fun spar and parry that leads to the inevitable moment when they FINALLY get in bed together, beginning Lucy's sexual awakening. These love scenes are just juicy enough to give new meaning to Lucy's "second coming" (wink, wink).
For a first novel, this was so smooth and well-paced - there wasn't a hang-up in the whole book. A great escape novel that'll make you want to go out and find your own honky-tonk handyman.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Fabulous, fabulous, fabulous!
2 Nov 2005
Format:Paperback
If you're looking to be swept away for a night (because once you pick it up, you won't put it down), then you NEED to buy this book. Every once in a while you come across a gem of a story -- one that you fall into, where you feel you know the characters better than you know your best friend, where the emotions that tumble off the pages are every bit as powerful and heady as the ones that swept through you when you fell in love the first time...
This book defies categorization. It is a love story, a 'coming of age' story, a literary triumph... and hot, hot, hot. :) No, it's not a romance. No, it's not a 'let's fall in love and everything will be hunky dory' book. It's a soul-searching, soul-rending, beautiful story that will remind you what passion is -- and might just make you fall in love with your husband (or wife) all over again.
(BTW, The Last of the Honky-Tonk Angels is just as good... can't WAIT for the third! Write faster, Marsha!)
This book defies categorization. It is a love story, a 'coming of age' story, a literary triumph... and hot, hot, hot. :) No, it's not a romance. No, it's not a 'let's fall in love and everything will be hunky dory' book. It's a soul-searching, soul-rending, beautiful story that will remind you what passion is -- and might just make you fall in love with your husband (or wife) all over again.
(BTW, The Last of the Honky-Tonk Angels is just as good... can't WAIT for the third! Write faster, Marsha!)
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