From the childhood loss of her father, to the suicide of her first lover, through the winding avenues of love and physical desire into marriage and the mid-life crisis she creates and painfully endures, Eleanor walks a tightrope between family, desire, unrequited love and professional and personal needs until she finds herself lost and then found.
The Life Room is a wonderfully written novel populated with emotional characters who are, while somewhat stereotypical, extremely human in their frailties and strengths.
Women will love and connect with Eleanor Cahn’s journey, and men…men should read this because for a man looking to understand women, this novel is an ‘Alice, through the looking glass’ glimpse into a contemporary woman’s mind.
