The Republic Of Love

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Complications beset two shell-shocked veterans of the wars of the heart - Fay, a folklorist whose passion for mermaids has kept her from focusing on any one man; and right across the street there's Tom, a popular radio talk-show host who has focused a little too intently, having married and divorced three times. Only Carol Shields could describe so adroitly both a couple who fall in love as thoroughly and satisfyingly as any Victorian couple and the modern complications that beset them.