Review: A much more upbeat and unusual love story for Spark's, and the ending isn't as tragic as many of his works. Besides the more positive ending, Spark's deviates from his usual writing. Instead of the two characters falling madly in love in two weeks, Thibault and Elizabeth actually take the time to get to know each other. These two differences are what made me really appreciate the story, more than almost all of Spark's novels. The concept was a bit too far fetched, but it is still fiction.
Synopsis: Thibault is a marine fighting abroad in the war, when he comes across a photograph in the desert. He picks it up and tries to find the owner, after no one claims it for some reason he holds onto this picture of a woman he has never met. Thibault begins to beat the odds and miraculously survive in numerous fatal scenarios. One of his comrades tells him that this picture is what is saving his life. After his time in the Marines is up, Thibault returns to the states and begins to search for this girl.
After walking across most the of country he finds Elizabeth, sister to a deceased Marine. He begins working right next door for her grandmother's kennel. Slowly he gets to know Elizabeth and her son, and all too soon, her insane ex husband who is also a police officer. Elizabeth's exhusband is not ready to give her up to this stranger, and seeks to rid the town of Thibault.
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