With or Without You
A romantic, escapist novel from the Sunday Times bestseller
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4.3 • 36 Ratings
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- £2.99
Publisher Description
A story about running away and finding more than just adventure, from the Sunday Times bestseller
When Jake tells Lyssa it's not working, she knows he's not talking about the toaster. Her immediate reaction is to sob into her pillow and wait for Jake to come to his senses. But slowly Lyssa begins to understand that's not an option. In a bid to escape, she embarks on a trekking holiday in Nepal. Lyssa needs to get away - it never occurred to her that she might fall in love . . .
When it's time to go home - back to reality and a very sheepish Jake - Lyssa is faced with the hardest choice of her life.
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PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
A lover's infidelity prompts a homebody toward big adventures and new priorities in Brit Matthews's entertaining romantic comedy. Lyssa Allen works at a baby magazine and is dying for a child of her own, but when successive rounds of IVF fail, her live-in boyfriend, Jake, declares he's had enough. Of course, he's also gotten himself involved with "a nubile twenty-five-year-old with legs like Lara Croft whose urge to go through the motions of procreation is very much in evidence." Poor Lyssa! What will she do? Shack up temporarily with her younger sister, Edie (aka "Rabbit"), who has a whopping six children at 29 and then jet off to Nepal for a trek through the Himalayas. After all, if Jake's new (but sort of slippery and insincere) lady can climb Everest, can't Lyssa hump a pack along a trail? And wouldn't it be nice if her guide were "a vision of manly loveliness" named Dean? Pretty soon Lyssa's contemplating big life changes, even as her old dreams look like they could finally come true. Matthews throws a few wrenches into Lyssa's voyage of self-(re)-discovery, but never leaves any doubt that happiness is around the bend.
Customer Reviews
Brilliant
I love Carole matthews books and this did not disappoint!
Didn’t age well
Bought this book because it was on offer in Apple Books. It’s about 20 years old which I hadn’t realised when I bought it but it hasn’t aged well. It actually made me feel a bit sad that this is the kind of rubbish I was fed as a young woman. I hope young women now have something more inspirational than these types of books.
With or Without You
Carole Matthews has done it again! Such lovely characters, beautifully written. I'm downloading another of her books as I write this review, completely hooked now!