.Once We Were Lovers is the latest book in Richard Gould’s Dream Cafe series. Georgie and Peter were lovers back in the 1970s in their university days. A catastrophic mistake was made which tore them apart, until now, in the present day, when Georgie has a reason for trying to reconcile with Peter.
There are many obstacles along Georgie’s way and it does seem as if she and Peter are never going to reconnect in any meaningful way. They have both been through some difficult, to say the least, times over the past fifty years and Peter doesn’t want to try again. The two of them could have done with some mystical sliding doors way back then.
While I sympathised with Georgie I found it hard to like her; I’m allowed to say that because I was around in her day and I’m probably judging her from my twenty-something perspective. Both she and Peter had been self-absorbed (as was I!) and Peter was a male chauvinist pig before anyone realised that that’s what they were. None of this makes them any less interesting though and RJ Gould examines their lives and their motives very well.
The Dream Cafe is a pivotal feature again with David, the owner, and his daughter, Rachel, both playing important roles. This is probably the grittiest story yet in the Dream Cafe series.
Published by Vinci Press
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