- Paperback: 336 pages
- Publisher: Little, Brown & Company; New edition edition (7 Dec 2000)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0316855863
- ISBN-13: 978-0316855860
- Product Dimensions: 23 x 15.2 x 2.8 cm
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 2,141,896 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Joanna and Josh have a happy marriage and a thriving garden nursery business. Then Joanna learns she has an inoperable brain tumour. Determined to leave this world with dignity and leave Josh with a caring woman, she engineers new friend and artist April to fall in love with Josh and vice versa.
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Judith Gould, whose books have been translated into twenty-two languages, lives and writes in Malden Bridge, New York.
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Format:Paperback
This is the first novel I've read by Judith and it won't be by last.
I'm not going to say too much about the story as I don't want to spoil it. What I will say is two perfect people have a marvellous company, but unfortunately fate intervenes and throws a couple of spanners in the works. The one good thing that fate throws in Joanna's way is her new friend called April.
Read the story and be taken on great journey but we warned it is a little sad.
If you're a Danielle Steel fan like me you will enjoy reading this novel as well.
It's a novel that I`ll read again. You'll find it's a compulsive read, once I started reading I couldn't but it down till I'd finished. :-)
I'm not going to say too much about the story as I don't want to spoil it. What I will say is two perfect people have a marvellous company, but unfortunately fate intervenes and throws a couple of spanners in the works. The one good thing that fate throws in Joanna's way is her new friend called April.
Read the story and be taken on great journey but we warned it is a little sad.
If you're a Danielle Steel fan like me you will enjoy reading this novel as well.
It's a novel that I`ll read again. You'll find it's a compulsive read, once I started reading I couldn't but it down till I'd finished. :-)
Format:Paperback
This was a fantastic read and one which I am sure to repeat quite soon.The book gripped me from the start and the storyline, although sad, wasnot over-emotional - I could read it in public without too many tearsanyway!
Make sure you read this book - truely inspirational for thosedealing with illness.
Make sure you read this book - truely inspirational for thosedealing with illness.
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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful
A 5 hanky melodrama
28 July 2000
Format:Hardcover
In the Santa Cruz Mountains near Monterey, California, Josh and Joanna Lawrence run an internationally acclaimed orchid business. Besides the success of their enterprise, observers clearly can see that the couple loves each other and will FOREVER. However, a serpent enters the picturesque lifestyle of the Lawrences when Joann learns she suffers from brain cancer that leaves her with a few months of life left.
Knowing she will love Josh TILL THE END OF TIME, Joanna establishes two goals to complete before she dies. She wants to build a grotto and find her replacement so that Josh goes on with his life. She hires artist April Woodward to accomplish her first aim and to fulfill the role of the second objective as Josh's SECOND LOVE.
TIME TO SAY GOOD-BYE is a heart wrenching relationship drama centering on a terminally ill person accepting her impending death with a grace and an unselfish love by placing her spouse first. When the story line focuses on the triangle, the tale is warm and sensitive. However, when Judith Gould adds unnecessary elements of suspense caused by a teaming up of Joanna's envious sister and a despicable business rival, the tale loses some of its momentum and charm. In spite of this insipid sidebar, Ms. Gould provides her readers with a tribute to the power of love.
Harriet Klausner
8 of 8 people found the following review helpful
Judith Gould always delivers good prose
25 Aug 2000
Format:Hardcover
I find it amazing that writers like Jackie Collins and Danielle Steele always find themselves on the NY Times Best Seller List while Judith Gould has not been there for years. If you are a fan of this genre you would be doing yourself a favor to pick up a Gould novel. Gould's writing is always fun and clever and her writing is far better than the above mentioned duo. The stories are always varied so you don't feel you are getting the same plot over and over again. I've given this novel four stars because I've read previous novels by Gould that I found to be truly excellent: FOREVER and TOO DAMN RICH. Although this novel is very good and Gould's prose is always better than your normal fiction, this book wasn't up to the excellence of the previous novels so I've given four stars. That's not to say you shouldn't read this novel. It's far better than your average fare.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
good book but....
21 Sep 2002
Format:Hardcover
The book was good, well written but very perdictable. I actually cried at the end it was that moving but I finished it within a day. Hope to read many more of Judith's works.
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