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Literary Analysis Everything We Keep

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Everything We Keep: A Novel

By- Kerry Lonsdale

Everything We Keep: A Novel is a pure entertainer for the die-hard romance enthusiasts. Kerry Lonsdale makes a very promising debut with thrilling suspense and unexpected twist, in a painful yet magical journey of love. The pain of losing someone you love the most, the one that matters and the devastation that follows, Everything We Keep explores all the overwhelming emotions of love. As the story unfolds, Kerry Lonsdale focuses her minimalistic approach on redemption of love, second chances and hope. The notion is driven by the euphoria of rediscovering love, and how the heart skips a beat upon learning the truth about the ones we hold dear and things we do for love!

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Aimee is a twenty-something Sous chef at her family restaurant, a sweet and practical girl whom we absolutely love. Her simplistic approach to life has a perfect plan of marrying her childhood sweetheart and settling down. The ideal romance setup as we say! But everything goes haywire as Aimee attends her fiancé’s funeral on the very same day they were meant to be married. James Donato, Aimee’s would-be husband vanishes from a boating accident and is presumed dead, leaving her in torment and trauma. Amidst all of the chaos, Aimee’s still believes that James is alive despite the irrefutable evidence. James’s shabby cousin, Phil, in addition to James’s older brother, Thomas, also share similar thoughts and side with Aimee. Kerry Lonsdale story-telling will compel you to be sympathetic towards Aimee’s ordeal. Just imagine the conflict in her thoughts, the unrest and the obvious denial she goes through after she figures out that James well may be …show more content…

They encourage her to move on and start a new life without James. This steers Aimee to drown in the memories of James, her eternal love for him and their dream of being together, forever! Aimee falls into an emotional overdrive leading to depression. Everything We Keep beautiful depicts the moral strength and will of a woman delicately via the character of Aimee, kudos to Kerry Lonsdale.

Meanwhile, when Aimee was just finding her way by leasing a coffee shop meets an interesting guy. A photographer named Ian Collins and he falls for her in no time. But Aimee resists his romantic advances because of the undying faith of James being alive. It almost seems like an invisible battle she fights in her mind every day, a battle she seems to be losing and in the process losing a bit of her. The narration is heart touching, eternal love and pure romance surely make Everything We Keep: A Novel a page-turner with a surreal portrayal of love and what comes

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