Contemporary fiction
THE PROMISE YOU MADE
In a Cornish village, Jonah and Sally live a teenage love of secret encounters and dreams for a future that will last forever. But at eighteen some promises are hard to keep and when on a fatal night tragedy strikes, their paths take different turns and separate.
Ten years later, Jonah has rebuilt his life as a successful artist and moves in the fashionable circles of 90s London. Sally is all but a distant memory that he has tried to bury for good.
Sally too has moved on, but when suddenly Jonah returns to Cornwall and reappears in her life, she finds herself torn between him and Ewan, the Cornish farmer she has married, divided between loyalty and passion, duty and love.
Over the course of nearly two decades, through meetings and partings, secrets and revelations, and two momentous summers, Jonah will have to confront his past and heal old wounds, while Sally will face the consequences of her choices – whether to follow her conscience or her heart.
IN BETWEEN DAYS
A JOURNEY THROUGH THREE DECADES
It's the late 80s, and four friends stand at the edge of adult life.
Sensitive Seth, the aspiring writer, juggles the pressure of university while nursing a broken heart; headstrong, arty Livy tries to move on from unrequited love throwing herself into activism and misguided relationships; beautiful, ambitious Tara knows what she wants but not necessarily what she needs; and Aidan, the handsome 'every-girl-hero', has to leave his carefree youth behind too soon and take on unexpected responsibilities.
Fast forward twenty years as relationships begin and end, music and fashion change, and life moves on with its familiar rights of passage, its successes, failures and heartaches. As the friends grow up, move apart and meet again, they discover life rarely turns out the way you imagined it at eighteen, in this moving, heartfelt novel.
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