[Caprice]

Let me tell you about one of my favorites: Elizabeth Walker's "DAY DREAMS". It's a 601-page book. I read it more than 9 times, so far.

The book is about a golden girl: Celia Sheraton. The adored daughter of a wealthy man, married with 2 lovely children (girls), she lives fast and drives fast...too fast: a car crash leaves her in a coma from which it seems that she will never recover.

Until an ambitious young neurosurgeon decides that waking Sleeping Beauty (so far hidden in a private ward, for reasons you'll discover if you read the book) will make his name. Charles Davenport's determination and genius achieve the impossible: Celia returns from the dead!

But outside the hospital, life has not stopped. Celia's parents are dead, their fortune left to her cousin Edwin Braddock. Her husband, David, has brought another woman into her home - and into her bed. Her daughters, babies when she crashed, are truculent teenagers in the midst of adolescence. And someone wants to put celia back to sleep - forever....

The thing I liked about this romance is that it gives us an insight into neurosurgery (a field I love so much!) and into coma patients' psyche. A tightly plotted and dramatic novel of suspense, it is also an unusual and sensual love story.