An uplifting and unforgettable read that will make you fall in love with life again...
Macy is settling into an ambitious if emotionally tepid routine: work hard as a new paediatrics resident,plan her wedding to an older,financially secure man,keep her head down and heart tucked away.
But when she runs into Elliot - the first and only love of her life - the careful bubble she's constructed begins to dissolve. Once upon a time,Elliot was Macy's entire world - growing from her gangly teen friend into the man who coaxed her heart open again after the loss of her mother... only to break it on the very night he declared his love for her.
Told in alternating timelines between Then and Now,teenage Elliot and Macy grow from friends to much more - spending weekends and lazy summers together reading books and talking through their growing pains and triumphs. As adults,they have become strangers to one another until their chance reunion. Although their memories are obscured by the agony of what happened that night so many years ago,Elliot will come to understand the truth behind Macy's decade-long silence,and will have to overcome the past and himself to revive her faith in the possibility of an all-consuming love.
The heart-breaking and heart-warming read from No. 1 international bestselling author Christina Lauren,author of The Unhoneymoonersand The Soulmate Equation.
Publisher: Little,Brown Book GroupISBN: 9780349417561Number of pages: 432Weight: 297 gDimensions: 196 x 126 x 34 mm
MEDIA REVIEWS
'With frank language and patient plotting,this gangly teen crush grows into a confident adult love affair'- Kirkus
'Lauren writes of the bittersweet pangs of love and loss with piercing clarity,and delivers a resoundingly life-affirming tale of what it takes to claw one's way to necessary healing,both romantically and personally'- Entertainment Weekly
'Christina Lauren has found a new sweet spot,with heartbreaking and hopeful language that will evoke the whirlwind immediacy of adolescence and the complicated choices of adulthood. Love and Other Words weaves past and present together in an emotional story that will have you declaring your favourite word is LOVE'- Amy E. Reichert,author of The Coincidence of Coconut Cake
'Love and Other Words is a triumph,the kind of book that makes you feel so deeply for the finely drawn characters that you almost forget they're fictional. You'll be swept away by the heartbreak,the joy,the chemistry,and the charisma woven through the fabric of Macy's and Elliot's star-crossed relationship. As the story unfolds - expertly interweaving the past with the present - you'll laugh,you'll cry,and you'll root for Macy and Elliot to find their way back to each other against all odds. A true joy from start to finish'- Kristin Harmel,author of The Room on Rue Amelie
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