5 Reasons to Leave a Lover - A Novella and Other Short Stories

by Carolyn Moncel

Overview

In 5 Reasons to Leave a Lover, author Carolyn Moncel offers up a fresh batch of stories based on love and loss. As singer/songwriter, Paul Simon so eloquently suggested in a famous song from the 1970s, there are many ways to leave a lover. However, Moncel's characters demonstrate that the reasons for leaving in the first place are quite finite. Encounters in Paris` Ellery and Julien Roulet return, picking up their lives where the short story, "Pandora`s Box Revisited," ends. This time the Roulets are involved in a love triangle, and along with two other couples, must explore how love relationships are affected and splinter due to abuse, ambivalence, deception, cheating and death. This bittersweet collection of tales proves that some breakups are necessary; while others are voluntary; and still others are simply destined and beyond anyone's control.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940013634411
Publisher:	Carolyn Moncel
Publication date:	08/05/2011
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	125 KB

About the Author

A media and web consultant by day and author by night, Carolyn Davenport-Moncel also is the author of Encounters in Paris - A Collection of Short Stories. Originally from Chicago and a graduate of Loyola University, she has lived in Paris and currently resides in Lausanne, Switzerland with her husband and two daughters. Her next work of fiction, include Five Reasons to Leave a Lover - A Novella and Other Short Stories, which debuts in September 2011; and Geneva Nights - A Novel, which debuts in the fall of 2012.

Editorial Reviews

Carolyn Moncel is a wonderful author. I like the development of the characters and the way they blended into the plot. This is not Ellery and Julien Roulet's first appearance, though. I was a little confused on that aspect at first, but once I pushed through the novella, I quickly became acquainted with them and found myself pulled into the middle of the book to take the journey of relationships and complicated issues that surround having a lover.

Not that I have been through these thin

Molly E.