The romantic

Description:

Lacking maternal love since the age of nine, when her mother abandoned the family, Louise Kirk develops a near-lifelong obsession with the boy from across the street--now a man who is incapable of loving her as much as she loves him.

subjects: Neighborhood,  Neighborhoods,  Motherless families,  Fiction,  Loss (Psychology),  Maternal deprivation,  Young women,  Runaway wives,  Man-woman relationships,  Friendship,  Carence maternelle,  Romans, nouvelles,  Enfants adoptés,  Fiction, romance, contemporary,  Fiction, psychological,  Young women, fiction