Ordinary Love : ‘An exquisitely tender portrayal of enduring love’ Observer

Published 12/06/2025 | Hardback,
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A STYLIST BEST NEW RELEASE OF 2025’This summer’s smart beach read’ GRAZIA, ’25 Things for 2025”Profoundly moving’ EMILY ST. JOHN MANDEL, bestselling author of STATION ELEVEN’A sweeping, decades-spanning tale of queer desire’ MARIE CLAIRE’Almost unbearably beautiful’ EMILIA HART, bestselling author of WEYWARD’Had me hooked from the first page’ JENNIE GODFREY, bestselling author of THE LIST OF SUSPICIOUS THINGSThere’s no such thing as an ordinary love storyWhen Emily catches sight of Gennifer Hall at a party, she is transported back to the moment they fell in love as teenagers. Their connection was electric, and they thought it was forever.

Twenty years later, Gen is an Olympic runner, the career she strived for, while Emily is living a picture-perfect life: Manhattan townhouse, two young children and a wealthy husband, Jack. But Jack’s controlling behaviour is spiralling, and Emily has lost sight of who she once was.

Now, despite Emily’s fracturing marriage and the pressures of Gen’s career, they are drawn back together by a magnetic attraction. After years of heartbreak, missed chances and misunderstandings, will they finally get a second chance at first love?A sweeping love story about desire, friendship, mistakes and the possibility of second chances, for fans of The Paper Palace and Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow’I loved this moving, tender story about lost love and second chances’ RED’Immersive and insightful’ LISA OWENS, author of NOT WORKING'[A] raw, gorgeous debut’ THE i PAPER’A tender romance’ WOMAN & HOME’A gorgeously written love story’ GOOD HOUSEKEEPING’Shining with rare clarity’ SAINSBURY’S MAGAZINEREADERS ARE ALREADY RAVING:????? ‘So raw and so real . . . If there’s one book you read this year, it should be this one’ ????? ‘I absolutely devoured this one . . . You will want to clear your afternoon to read this one straight through’ ?????’The characters were so real that I miss them now the book’s over. This novel is one for the ages’ ????? ‘Boy did this pack a punch, have a box of tissues by your side – you will need these’ ????? ‘Sexy and sensual . . . I found myself not wanting to stop reading’ ????? ‘So emotionally wrecked by this book [that I’m] still thinking about it obsessively months later’ ????? ‘I fell in love with this story and these characters right from the beginning’