Other Lovers
Reviewed By Janet Mawdesley April 26, 2026
Author Natalia Rachel
Distributor: Amazon
ISBN: 978-1764325400
Publisher: Illuma Vision
Release Date: 27 January 2026
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Natalia Rachel combines heart felt, emotional poetry with enlightening prose as she places love, or what may pass for love under the microscope as viewed by the modern generation.
In this heartbreaking, but all too real novel she, through the life of Lena and her friends explores what it means to understand real love when it finally comes knocking at your door; is a combination of sex and love or love and sex or is it something different altogether.
Divorced after a twenty-year marriage, living in Singapore and healing after a long illness, mother of two Lena is facing the reality of being single, free and available. On-line dating seems to be the way into a new love affair or a way to meet eligible men, but is it, as all she seems to get is needy men who are just like her, looking for a new direction.
The sex is great, the angst is terrible, disillusionment is overpowering and love seems to be further away than it has ever been. She draws on the love and care of her friends, all single women who are facing their own challenges, using the freedom of their lifestyles to cope with the stress of modern life, to help her understand where she is in her life.
Natalia Rachel draws on her own life experience which comes through in the captivating poetry which begins each chapter before it is unpacked in the almost separate life of Lena as she tries desperately to understand her life, her desires and her way forward.
Lena eventually discovers the one singular thing that is vitally important, that perhaps to find true love, you first need to understand yourself: a sobering thought in a world that bombards with almost impossible standards encapsulated within limited boundaries.
Emotional and in many ways cathartic, Other Lovers offers a refreshing look at the tumultuous, dependant, destructive world of on-line dating and the reality that to find the emotional stability you are looking for, you must begin with you!
Other Lovers could be considered as therapy between the pages of life through the medium of deep, enriching poetry.