Miss You - A Novel

Zusatztext “This debut romance by the British author playfully upends the expectation of happily ever after.” Informationen zum Autor KATE EBERLEN grew up in a small town close to London and spent her childhood reading books and longing to escape to the big city. She studied classics at Oxford University before pursuing a variety of jobs in publishing! the arts and teaching. Eberlen loves Italy and dance! two passions that are reflected in If Only . She lives in London. Klappentext “Today is the first day of the rest of your life.” Tess can’t get the motto from her mother’s kitchen knickknack out of her head! even though she’s in Florence on an idyllic vacation before starting university in London. Gus is also visiting Florence! on a holiday with his parents seven months after tragedy shattered their lives. Headed to medical school in London! he’s trying to be a dutiful son but longs to escape and discover who he really is. A chance meeting brings these eighteen-year-olds together for a brief moment—the first of many times their paths will cross as their lives diverge from those they’d envisioned. Over the course of the next sixteen years! Tess and Gus will face very different challenges and choices. Separated as they are by distance and circumstance! the possibility of these two connecting once more seems slight. But while fate can separate two people! it can also bring them back together again. Zusammenfassung What if you walked by the love of your life and didn’t even know it? “A witty! poignant and uplifting story of two lives criss-crossing over the years! with near-miss after near-miss. . . . I couldn’t put it down.” —Sophie Kinsella Today is the first day of the rest of your life is the motto on a plate in the kitchen at home! and Tess can’t get it out of her head! even though she’s in Florence for a final! idyllic holiday before university. Her life is about to change forever—but not in the way she expects. Gus and his parents are also on holiday in Florence. Their lives have already changed suddenly and dramatically. Gus tries to be a dutiful son! but longs to escape and discover what sort of person he is going to be. For one day! the paths of an eighteen-year-old girl and boy criss-cross before each returns to England. Over the course of the next sixteen years! life and love will offer them very different challenges. Separated by distance and fate! there’s no way the two of them are ever going to meet each other properly. . . . Or is there?   ...

Product details

• Authors: Kate Eberlen
• Publisher: Harper Perennial USA
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.05.2018
• EAN: 9781443449991
• ISBN: 978-1-4434-4999-1
• No. of pages: 448
• Dimensions: 135 mm x 203 mm x 26 mm
• Subjects: FICTION: Women, FICTION: Family Life / General, FICTION: Romance / Romantic Comedy