Two people. Ten chances. One unforgettable love story.
Laurie is pretty sure love at first sight doesn't exist anywhere but the movies. But then, through a misted-up bus window one snowy December day, she sees a man who she knows instantly is the one. Their eyes meet, there's a moment of pure magic... and then her bus drives away.
Certain they're fated to find each other again, Laurie spends a year scanning every bus stop and cafe in London for him. But she doesn't find him, not when it matters anyway. Instead they "reunite" at a Christmas party, when her best friend Sarah giddily introduces her new boyfriend to Laurie. It's Jack, the man from the bus. It would be.
What follows for Laurie, Sarah and Jack is ten years of friendship, heartbreak, missed opportunities, roads not taken, and destinies reconsidered. One Day in December is a joyous, heartwarming and immensely moving love story to escape into and a reminder that fate takes inexplicable turns along the route to happiness.
A story about people who matched each other but the time was not right ...
I don’t want to “spoil” the book too much with someone who hasn’t read it yet, but I can say a few things. Until the very end, I sincerely had no idea how it would all end. And I shed no tears (well but here maybe I’m just such a cry).
So many different twists and turns in this story.
I really enjoyed the book. Both for the story and for the action in London (well, you don’t know, London is my love, where I’d like to come back and come back).
Just think reading in the winter (December) would make the book effect even greater! ❄
Rating: 5/5
Publishing house: Jotema