The One That Got Away
A powerful and emotional story of first love, the perfect read for fans of One Day in 2024
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3.3 • 3 Ratings
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- £3.99
Publisher Description
If you loved One Day by David Nicholls, then this is the perfect read for you!
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Two years together. Twenty years apart. One day to change their story.
Benjamin's world is turned upside down the day he meets Clara. Instinctively, he knows that she is his person and he is hers, but the events of one devastating night will take their lives in very different directions.
20 years later, a bombing is reported in the city where Clara and Ben met, and she is pulled back to a place she tries not to remember and the first love she could never forget. Searching for Ben, Clara prays that twenty years of silence is about to end.
But is it too late to put right what went wrong?
This is not a love story. But it is a story of first love, of the mistakes people make, and the lengths they'll go to put things right.
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For fans of Colleen Hoover and Rosie Walsh: this book will break your heart... then put it back together.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Rixon debuts with a poignant and gripping second chance romance. When Brits Clara and Benjamin first meet in college, it's love at first sight. Both on the cusp of adulthood, their all-consuming relationship hits the rocks as they struggle with life's harsh realities, including sickness and death in both of their families. Then, right before graduation, a devastating accident almost ruins both their futures and destroys their relationship. Twenty years later, they've both attempted to move on: Benjamin is a single father whose only regret is his relationship with his son's alcoholic mother, while Clara is married, has a successful career, and is writing her first novel—but she can't help feeling unhappy. Then a bomb explodes in the town where they met, triggering both to remember the pasts they had buried and sending Clara racing to reunite with Benjamin. Rixon takes on a lot of heavy subjects, including cancer, addiction, sexual assault, and manslaughter, making this not a romance to turn to for escapism. It is, however, a raw and aching examination of lost opportunities and what-ifs. This sometimes grim but always evocative portrait of first love reunited tugs at the heartstrings.
