{"id":4979,"date":"2025-01-08T21:49:13","date_gmt":"2025-01-08T21:49:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peraltafinancing.com\/entertainment\/books\/blasts-from-the-past-the-republic-of-love-by-carol-shields-1992\/"},"modified":"2025-01-08T21:49:13","modified_gmt":"2025-01-08T21:49:13","slug":"blasts-from-the-past-the-republic-of-love-by-carol-shields-1992","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=4979","title":{"rendered":"Blasts from the Past: The Republic of Love by Carol Shields (1992)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div itemprop=\"text\">\n<p>This is the latest in\u00a0<img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-29973\" src=\"https:\/\/t9z6e6y4.delivery.rocketcdn.me\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/The-Republic-of-Love-194x300.jpg\" alt=\"Cover image for The Republic of Love by Carol Shields\" width=\"194\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/t9z6e6y4.delivery.rocketcdn.me\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/The-Republic-of-Love-194x300.jpg 194w, https:\/\/t9z6e6y4.delivery.rocketcdn.me\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/The-Republic-of-Love.jpg 259w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 194px) 100vw, 194px\"\/><a href=\"https:\/\/alifeinbooks.co.uk\/blasts-from-the-past\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a series of occasional posts<\/a> featuring books I read years ago about which I was wildly enthusiastic at the time, wanting to press a copy in as many hands as I could.<\/p>\n<p>Regular readers of this blog will have noticed that I tend to shy away from fluffy novels, often heading towards the darker end of the fiction spectrum although not too dark, particularly in recent years. Unashamedly romantic, <em>The Republic of Love<\/em> might seem an uncharacteristic choice but I loved it.<\/p>\n<p>Shields\u2019s novel tells the story of Tom and Fay both of whom have a chequered romantic past. Fay finds it hard to commit herself. She has her parents\u2019 idyllic marriage as a model, a marriage which seems almost to be a mirage of happiness, one she can\u2019t quite believe she can attain for herself. And Tom? Well, Tom already has three marriages behind him. Ill matched as these two may seem, they fall in love but, as we all know, the course of true love never did run smooth.<\/p>\n<p>Not the best known of Shields\u2019s novels but it was the first of hers I read and I have a soft spot for it.<\/p>\n<p>What about you, any blasts from the past you\u2019d like to share?<\/p>\n<p>You can find more posts like this <a href=\"https:\/\/alifeinbooks.co.uk\/category\/blasts-from-the-past\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>here<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"sharedaddy sd-block sd-like jetpack-likes-widget-wrapper jetpack-likes-widget-unloaded\" id=\"like-post-wrapper-52859811-29972-677edf30aeed1\" data-src=\"https:\/\/widgets.wp.com\/likes\/?ver=14.2#blog_id=52859811&amp;post_id=29972&amp;origin=alifeinbooks.co.uk&amp;obj_id=52859811-29972-677edf30aeed1&amp;n=1\" data-name=\"like-post-frame-52859811-29972-677edf30aeed1\" data-title=\"Like or Reblog\">\n<h3 class=\"sd-title\">Like this:<\/h3>\n<p><span class=\"button\"><span>Like<\/span><\/span> <span class=\"loading\">Loading&#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"sd-text-color\"\/><a class=\"sd-link-color\"\/><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is the latest in\u00a0a series of occasional posts featuring books I read years ago about which I was wildly enthusiastic at the time, wanting to press a copy in as many hands as I could. 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