Product Description

Morrisey Hawthorne and her four-year-old son, Gareth, have a pretty good life. Then one day they meet Charlene Sudsbury, who is trying to move on from the suicide of her son, JP, three years before. Gareth is nearly the mirror image of JP, and Charlene connects instantly with him. Not quite so with Morrisey, who can't escape fast enough after Charlene shows her a picture of JP. Charlene is convinced Morrisey is hiding something and sets out in search of the truth.

Despite the circumstances, the two women form an unusual bond and end up with a lot more than they bargained for. But when an old friend of JP's resurfaces, he challenges the fragile trust Morrisey and Charlene have been building.

Can these two women overcome the obstacles that separate them from the happiness they seek?

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #460929 in Books
• Published on: 2008-02-20
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 196 pages

About the Author
Q. Kelly lives in Virginia. When she was a child, her father, an avid hunter, mounted a deer head in the middle of the living room. The deer, of course, was dead, or so they said. Still, Kelly felt its glassy eyes on her all the time, tracking her every movement when she was nearby. Now she is 28 years old and has long since been out on her own. The deer head is still up and about, though. Her father continues to maintain that Kelly's imagination was just running wild. Whatever. She knows better.

These days she has more productive things to do than let deer heads freak her out. She works at a newspaper as a copy editor and designer. In her free time, she hikes, savors frappuccinos and struggles valiantly in tennis.

Customer Reviews

Gotta Read This!
Sad, funny, sweet, and harsh all rolled into one book. The characters slowly unravel to reveal secrets that would intertwine them more than expected. A sweet little boy in the middle of it all, connecting two women in ways more than romance and love. Gareth, the young boy, easily tunes into things around him and his unfiltered curiosity forces his mom, Morrisey, to come to terms with her own past, present, and future. What seems, on the surface, to be a normal single mom raising her wonderful son, we soon find to be anything but simple. Her new love, Charlene, finds that her own life is not what she thought it was.

A true page-turner, The Odd Couple made me laugh, empathize, shake my head in disgust, and say "AWWWWW". The plot offers many mysteries, as well as building anticipation during what seem to be unforgiving circumstances. Lots of shocking and ah-ha moments, as well as surprising events divulged. The author presents well-developed characters who are believable, realistic, down-to -Earth, and who invoke many emotions. A very well-written and exciting first book for this new author!

Romance with a twist
Really intriguing book, formulaic romance with a twist.

Morrisey and Charlene meet at the cemetery, one there to visit her son, one to visit her father. Morrisey's little son Gareth is the spitting image of Charlene's dead son JP which sparks Charlene's curiosity.

I don't want to give away what connects the two women, but their romance is an unlikely one. Yet, it works. Not only for them but for me as a reader. The two main characters truly come alive between the pages, and some of the secondary characters do as well.

Towards the end the author lost me a bit with further twists and turns, I'm not sure all of those were necessary. I have my usual gripe with this book in that it seems to stop in the middle of the story. Once more, I was fully expecting it to continue when I turned the page. While things aren't exactly unresolved, they are not dealt with fully, as in we don't see the impact the last plot developments have on Charlene and Morrisey. I think that would have been interesting to read.

not your typical romance
Based on the book's blurb on the story plotline i was expecting something like mother gave birth to twins and the second baby was kidnapped without the mother's knowledge. The crime is discovered when the mother sets out in search of the truth and along the way falls in love with the "false" mother.

Boy was i wrong. The book is not about that...it is a romance novel but not your typical romance. The main characters are indeed an odd couple and the book is a good read. No obvious plot foreshadowing or grammar issues that throws the reader off their rhythm. Overall, impression of the book is one of good writing and strong plotlines. I only had one small minor issue where i got confused whose point of view was being presented. character one, character two or the narrator. This confusion only happened on one paragraph out of the whole book. Despite that i still recommend getting this book and reading it.