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Helen Bonner's new memoir, First Love Last, tells what happened when after years of bitter separation, a married English professor in her 70's encounters her first husband, a mistrustful scientist, at a class reunion.
What follows is not a romance, but a love story, full of humor as well as pathos, and sprinkled with wisdom quotes from scientists and philosophers.
Reviews of First Love Last
Helen Bonner's First Love Last begins as a chance
encounter with her first husband at a high school reunion. They
had divorced decades earlier and had not kept in touch, nor had he made
any attempt to see his two sons. Her story reinforces the notion
that our first love makes a lasting impression on our brains. Her
honest, no-holds-barred telling of the passionate rekindling of a love
relationship thought to be long dead is intriguing and inspirational,
especially since the lovers are in their 70s. Her long-absent first
husband undergoes chemotherapy, blood transfusions and experimental
treatments and lives with the knowledge that his time on earth to make
amends is short. First Love Last is a story about unbreakable
bonds, loving beyond appearances, forgiveness and hope.
Nanci Woody
First Love Last is more than a good story about an unforgettable love. This book will transform the ways both the old and young underestimate the power of love.
Antoinette May, author of Pilate's Wife and The Sacred Well
In First Love Last, Helen Bonner talks of late-life sexuality with frank honesty and peppers a good story with the wisdom of physicists and prophets. Full of inspiration, insight and hope.
Susan Hauser, author of
You can Write a Memoir.
Dr.Bonner's book touched my soul at its spiritual core as it kept me spellbound. Many thanks for this literary wonder.
Lynette Monroe, BSN, RN, CCM, Sacramento
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