Flanders Point

OKay, I admit it. I have a problem.The real reason I read books like this one is that I am constantly searching for something that will bring to life my old crush on an Economics teacher of mine. I have come to consider myself a connoisseur of the teacher-student love story.The prognosis of Flanders Point?It is the BEST teacher-student love story I have ever had the pleasure of reading. The breakdown in the tension does take a long time in coming, but when it does... ah. It's worth it. Brian is well likable. We identify with Charlotte. And Gordon handles each side of the story with grace and reason in a sometimes dark and unreasonable cliche of a storyline.Simply put, I loved it. I've read other teacher-student stories like it, "Innocents" by Cathy Coote, "A Kiss Remembered" by Sandra Brown, "Treacherous Love" by Beatrice Sparks, "Pure" by Rebecca Ray. But they just don't create the same emotional attachment to the characters that Gordon has accomplished with Flanders Point.Check it out, Buy it, Just get your hands on it!!!

From the very beginning, I couldn't put this book down. When I wasn't reading it, I just seemed to keep thinking about the characters and the story. Jacquie Gordon paints a glorious picture of a forbidden relationship. This is a definite must-read if you're in the mood for a sentimentle, beautiful love story!

Jacquie Gordon has drawn an exquisitely detailed and joyful portrait of the relationship between a precocious teenager and her young teacher. The growing tension between them, set against a backdrop of life in a 1950s private school, will keep you glued to its pages way past your bedtime. I adored Ms. Gordon's sensitive biography, Give Me One Wish, of her daughter Christine and am delighted to find this wonderful fictional debut is just as fascinating.

Flanders Point is a sensitive, fascinating romance, not, as Kirkus would have it, for the juvenile trade, but for anyone who likes good novels about complex relationships. Charlotte Delafield, the heroine, has survived a very unpleasant childhood. At the Haddam school in Flanders Point, she not only survives but thrives, and the love that develops between Charlotte and her young English teacher, Brian Parton, is powerful and dangerous. Both them are young, but both are also strong enough to avoid the dangers. This is a strong, faascinating story.

An all girls school, a crush on the English teacher, divorce, rape and jeolousy - as an alum of an all girls high school, I could not resist the story line and I was not disappointed. This book captured the all the intensity and subtlety of the relationships between men and women without sensationalism. It was quietly erotic and full of suspense without really being a "mystery." One of my favorite aspects of this book was the author's inclusion of the ecology of the setting in the form of the main character's love of the local natural environment. It brought the Connecticut shore to my senses in the same fashion that "Water for Chocolate" made my mouth water