The One That Got Away: A powerful and emotional story of first love, the perfect read for fans of One Day in 2024
Feb 2023 · Bloomsbury Publishing
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About this ebook
If you loved One Day by David Nicholls, then this is the perfect read for you!
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Two years together. Twenty years apart. One day to change their story.
Benjamin's world is turned upside down the day he meets Clara. Instinctively, he knows that she is his person and he is hers, but the events of one devastating night will take their lives in very different directions.
20 years later, a bombing is reported in the city where Clara and Ben met, and she is pulled back to a place she tries not to remember and the first love she could never forget. Searching for Ben, Clara prays that twenty years of silence is about to end.
But is it too late to put right what went wrong?
This is not a love story. But it is a story of first love, of the mistakes people make, and the lengths they'll go to put things right.
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For fans of Colleen Hoover and Rosie Walsh: this book will break your heart... then put it back together.
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Two years together. Twenty years apart. One day to change their story.
Benjamin's world is turned upside down the day he meets Clara. Instinctively, he knows that she is his person and he is hers, but the events of one devastating night will take their lives in very different directions.
20 years later, a bombing is reported in the city where Clara and Ben met, and she is pulled back to a place she tries not to remember and the first love she could never forget. Searching for Ben, Clara prays that twenty years of silence is about to end.
But is it too late to put right what went wrong?
This is not a love story. But it is a story of first love, of the mistakes people make, and the lengths they'll go to put things right.
***
For fans of Colleen Hoover and Rosie Walsh: this book will break your heart... then put it back together.
Ratings and reviews
3.0
2 reviews
Nebula Castelino
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February 2, 2023
Charlotte Rixon's The One That Got Away is a beautiful narrative between Benjamin and Clara. With every passing page, Charlotte's narrative style grows on you, her well-chosen words driving an intriguing and complex plot. A big win for me is how realistic and flawed both characters are. They come from different sides of their tracks, and each has trauma that they need to reconcile. A thank you to NetGalley and Aria & Aries for giving me an ARC. This honest review is left voluntarily.
Alison Robinson
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February 3, 2023
I have too many books on my TBR pile to continue reading a book where I don't like either of the characters and it doesn't seem to have got anywhere. I received an ARC of this book from the publisher via NetGalley in return for an honest review. Read on my Kindle Unlimited subscription.
About the author
Charlotte Rixon is the pen name of Charlotte Duckworth, USA Today-bestselling author of suspense fiction published by Quercus. Charlotte studied Classics at Leeds University and went on to gain a PGDip in Screenwriting. She worked for many years as a magazine journalist, and is a graduate of the Faber Academy 'Writing A Novel' course.
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