Touchwood

By: Karin Kallmaker

Narrated by: Angela Dawe

Twenty-nine-year-old Rayann Germaine, betrayed by her lover, flees in grief and rage. She meets book-store owner Louisa Thatcher, a woman many years her senior, who offers shelter and work...and soon, passion, and a loving place in her life.

But Rayann encounters challenges to this new love - from friends who question its wisdom, from her mother who disapproves of this liaison with a woman her own contemporary, from Louisa's son who learns for the first time his mother's true sexuality.

And there are profound differences between Rayann and Louisa themselves, two women who come from dramatically different places in the spectrum of age and life experience. Their only common ground seems to be the searing attraction that they both try to deny....

©1991 Karin Kallmaker (P)2021 Tantor

Read the book 30 years ago

I read this book around 30 years ago. I don’t usually read books twice but with the amazing Angela Dawe doing the narration, I had to get. The book reminded me of how far we’ve come and where I don’t want the big scary orange man lead us back to.

Ageless

I loved this story, it is truly ageless. So well written and Angela Dawe made this book come to life.

Very Good

I am reminded, of a more modern version, of Desert, of the Heart - a lesbian, romance classic. There is, also, just such a great, lesbian community, in this one, like in Painted Moon. Kallmaker wrote a good addition, to the May-December subgenre.

Oh wow this is awesome!

This was amazing! I absolutely loved everything about this storyline, the characters Especially Lou and Ray. I loved the back stories and details of emotions and interactions between each chapter. The Narration was on point. This is definitely going in my favorites. 10s across the board!

My partners and my favourite lesbian novel.

This adaptation of Touchwood is really well read 10/10 would recommend to anyone looking for a romance.

Such feels

Crazy opening
Interesting middle
Delicious ending
Love is love no matter where we are in life

I loved this book

A look to the history of lesbians, in a very interesting way. I loved it, this is a very well written story, with interesting MC wi age gap, and narration is WOW

An Unlikely Pairing

Rayann Germaine comes home early to find her girlfriend with another woman. Fleeing to Oakland she meets Louise Thatcher who runs a book store and offers her a room for her help with her business. Louise is 59 and Rayann 29 but that doesn’t stop the feeling and passion growing between them. A great depiction of the differences between generations of lesbians and gays. Awesome narration.

good lesbian audiobook

very good lesbian audiobook, very interesting, fun and sexy,. I like the narrative and the story line

Wow!

I could listen to Angela Dawe for days! Perfect narration!!!
Karin Kallmaker is such a good emotion writer. Her stories are creative in a unique way to me. I wasn’t sure if I’d like this story, I’ll confess in part due to the age gap. But it worked. I loved the book and will likely listen to it again in the future.