Talking at Night
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Publisher Description
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Will and Rosie meet as teenagers. They're opposites in every way, but over secret walks home and late-night phone calls they become closer, destined to be one another's great love story.
Until, one day, tragedy strikes and any possibility of them being together shatters.
But that tragedy - and their history - is what will connect them forever...
©2023 Claire Daverley (P)2023 Penguin Audio
APPLE BOOKS REVIEW
The angst and exhilaration of an opposites-attract teenage relationship is forced to contend with devastating reality when catastrophe knocks Rosie and Will’s budding romance utterly off course. Over the next decade or so they shuffle obsessively, compulsively in and out of each other’s lives, unable to fully commit or finally escape the other’s magnetic pull. But this seemingly endless dance never becomes frustrating or contrived—the obstacles keeping them apart, real and imagined, feel believable and consistent with what we gradually learn about each of them. Beyond the tragedy that separated them, much is hinted at that could fill another book—the destruction and anguish of Will’s early youth, the misery of Rosie’s parents and her fraught relationship with her remote, complicated mother. Yet there’s also enough authentic passion and joy here to keep us fully invested in the star-crossed couple, and rooting for them until the end.