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The Love of My Life
- Narrated by: Colleen Prendergast
- Length: 8 hrs and 39 mins
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Publisher's Summary
‘I miss him with every breath and heartbeat. He should have been my happy ending. Instead, he is the sad beginning to my story.'
Olivia and Luca Felicone had known each other nearly all their lives, but when they fell in love as teenagers and eloped to London, they broke the hearts of those closest to them.
Luca's parents run Marinella's restaurant, the colourful hub of life in the otherwise bleak northeastern seaside town of Watersford, and his mother, Angela, has never forgiven Olivia for causing such a rift in her beloved family.
On a freezing January night Olivia's life is shattered when she learns that Luca has been killed in a car accident on the M1. She is left with nothing, and after suffering from weeks of overwhelming grief, she abandons her job and returns North to where Luca has been buried in Watersford, just to be close to him - even though she knows she will not be welcome at Marinella's.
Olivia's chance meeting with Luca's married twin brother, Marc, leads to the realization that he is experiencing a loss almost as painful as her own. Their desolation draws them into an affair which both know has no future, but fills the space where Luca should be. It is a course of action that can only spiral out of control, and when it does, the consequences are both explosive and cruel.
The Love of My Life is a beautiful novel that portrays both the innocence of childhood, and the dynamics of love and loss with deftness and sensitivity. It is, above all, a stunning debut from an author with a unique and natural narrative voice.
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- Anonymous User
- 11-06-2023
Intense but unsatisfying (spoilers)
I really, really liked this book, more than any of the author’s more traditional crime melodramas. However, there is an incident that occurs in the denouement where the family of the heroine’s dead husband do something with his grave without her knowledge. This ruined the book for me, because it is a spouse only who has legal rights over anything such as this. Even if they could have done what they did, she could knock it down and take it back the next day and no one could stop her. The law is entirely on her side. I’m not sure if the author is unaware of this or if she just chose to ignore it for the ending she wanted, but either way it took me way out of what was an otherwise beautifully crafted story. If I was Olivia I would’ve been at that grave with a sledgehammer the next morning! Disappointing that this feisty heroine wasn’t. Very very unsatisfying ending.
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