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Author: CC Lindh

Publisher: Singing Trees Productions

ISBN: 10: 1469924706

CC Lindh has written a touching, tragic novella about romantic and tragic love in her book Oceana, aptly named after the main character, a women in her forties who has to come to terms with her own mortality.

This ninety three page soft cover book can be easily read in an hour or two. It has a photograph of waves gently lapping up on a beach on the front cover with the title, byline and author not capitalized and the back cover is a fading green color with the barcode only, no description or reviews. The story itself starts on the second page and at the end are a poem and acknowledgements and special thanks pages. There were no noticeable grammatical or typographical errors but the printing is done in an aqua blue color which is a strain on the eyes. There is minor profanity, innocuous sex scenes and death that could still be rated for the preteen and above age group.

Oceana is a story of a forty something year old woman who lives and breathes the ocean by surfing and living nearby in a small cottage where she grew up as a child. She makes her living making natural surfboard wax. As her story unfolds, she has lost an infant at his birth and the child’s father got killed in a car accident. However, the real underlying story is about her parents both having early onset dementia and how it strongly affects her and her relationships.

The new man in her life is Guy, an Australian golfer who stays at the next door cottage and quickly falls in love with the beautiful, engaging, out-going girl. After Oceana has a surfing accident, Guy sees abrupt changes in her memory and he starts to realize she is going doing the same tragic path as her parents.

Although some of the dialogue and storyline gets muddled occasionally, the story definitely redeems itself towards the heartbreaking end where Oceana dies doing what she loves best. Many topics from golf and surfing to starfish, soy wax, jazz music and fireflies are intertwined in their conversations but the reliance on food and drink intake gets mundane at times.

Due to the subject matter being so sorrowful, this truly makes the reader stop and think about his or her own life, wondering if such a debilitating disease could over-power one’s memory or that of a love one’s. Lindh does a good job showing the passion, anguish, and despair of dealing with memory loss on a daily basis.

Follow Here To Purchase oceana: a love story