Every Breath Nicholas Sparks
Publisher Sphere at Little brown
Published in paperback and hardback 16th October 2018
In the romantic tradition of The Notebook and Nights in Rodanthe, #1 New York Times bestselling author Nicholas Sparks returns with a story about a chance encounter that becomes a touchstone for two vastly different individuals — transcending decades, continents, and the bittersweet workings of fate.
Hope Anderson is at a crossroads. At thirty-six, she’s been dating her boyfriend, an orthopedic surgeon, for six years. With no wedding plans in sight, and her father recently diagnosed with ALS, she decides to use a week at her family’s cottage in Sunset Beach, North Carolina, to ready the house for sale and mull over some difficult decisions about her future.
Tru Walls has never visited North Carolina but is summoned to Sunset Beach by a letter from a man claiming to be his father. A safari guide, born and raised in Zimbabwe, Tru hopes to unravel some of the mysteries surrounding his mother’s early life and recapture memories lost with her death. When the two strangers cross paths, their connection is as electric as it is unfathomable . . . but in the immersive days that follow, their feelings for each other will give way to choices that pit family duty against personal happiness in devastating ways.
When the two strangers cross paths, their connection is electric, but their feelings for each other give way to choices that pit family duty against personal happiness in devastating ways.
MY REVIEW
Nicholas Sparks books and films are a family tradition in my house.
Here’s a little extract
KINDER SPIRIT
There are stories that rise from mysterious, unknown places, and others that are discovered, a gift from someone else. This story is one of the latter. On a cool and blustery day in the late spring of 2016, I drove to Sunset Beach, North Carolina, one of many small islands between Wilmington and the South Carolina border. I parked my truck near the pier and hiked down the beach, heading for Bird Island, an uninhabited coastal preserve. Locals had told me there was something I should see perhaps, they’d even suggested, the site would end up in one of my novels. They told me to keep my eye out for an American flag when I spotted in the distance, I’d know I was getting close.
Not long after the flag came into view, I kept my eyes peeled. I was to look for a mailbox, called Kinder Spirit, near the dunes. The mailbox planted on a pole of aging driftwood near a saw grass speckled dune has been around since 1983 and belongs to no one and everyone. Anyone can leave a letter or postcard any passerby can read whatever has been placed inside. Thousands of people do so every year. Over time, Kinder Spirit has been repository of hopes and dreams in written form and always, there are love stories to be found.
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