Ordinary Love by Marie Rutkoski

'Moving and tender, this is an immersive, glamorous, sexy and gripping modern love story to gulp down hungrily and quickly.'  Sunday Times
 
 
THERE’S NO SUCH THING AS AN ORDINARY LOVE STORY
 
When Emily catches sight of Gennifer Hall at a party, she is transported back to the moment they fell in love as teenagers. Their connection was electric, and they thought it was forever.

Twenty years later, Gen is an Olympic runner, the career she strived for, while Emily is living a picture-perfect life: Manhattan townhouse, two young children and a wealthy husband, Jack. But Jack’s controlling behaviour is spiralling, and Emily has lost sight of who she once was.

Now, despite Emily’s fracturing marriage and the pressures of Gen’s career, they are drawn back together by a magnetic attraction. After years of heartbreak, missed chances and misunderstandings, will they finally get a second chance at first love?
 
A sweeping love story about desire, friendship, mistakes and the possibility of second chances. 
 
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'A sweeping tale. Tender, truthful and gorgeously written, I devoured it in a few days.' - Samuel Burr
 
'This novel is remarkable and profoundly moving. A beautifully written, intelligent, quietly hopeful story about being lost and found.' - Emily St. John Mandel
 
'This is an almost unbearably beautiful love story. Emily and Gen feel completely real: on the rare occasion I managed to put this book down, I thought about them constantly. It broke my heart to let them go when I turned the final page. Ordinary Love is extraordinary.' - Emilia Hart
 
'Ordinary Love sparkles with the excitement, danger and wonder of love in all its forms.' - Sophie Ward