Ivy and Abe

'If you liked Jojo Moyes' Me Before You this is the perfect new read for you . . . a story for anyone who has ever wondered what if . . . ?' Woman's Weekly 
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Ivy is always destined to meet Abe. 
 
 But when is the RIGHT time? 
 
 At school, as a free spirit in her twenties or when she is married . . . to someone else? 
 
Perhaps they meet when she is a widow in her sixties? Or maybe he remains a stranger, glimpsed only fleetingly. 
 
 Ivy and Abe are soulmates. But what if they meet at the WRONG time, and fate and circumstance stand in Ivy's way? 
 
 Told over Ivy's lifetime, across a series of alternate realities, Ivy &amp; Abe is a story for anyone who has ever wondered 'what if?' 
 
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'Think 'Sliding Doors' meets One Day and wonder if there's a right person for everyone or just a right time' Red 
 
'An epic love story' Araminta Hall

If you liked Jojo Moyes' Me Before You this is the perfect new read for you . . . a story for anyone who has ever wondered what if . . . ?

If you liked David Nicholls' One Day or Jojo Moyes' Me Before You, you'll love this uplifting read

Explores beautifully the way in which so-called ordinary lives play out

If you liked David Nicholls' One Day or Jojo Moyes' Me Before You, you'll love this uplifting read

The same pair of lovers find and lose each other through the decades . . . a novel full of emotional truth

Think Sliding Doors meets One Day. Follow two childhood friends through the lives they could have had together and wonder if there's a right person for everyone or just a right time

A moving and thought-provoking novel in the tradition of Sliding Doors and The Versions of Us. One for anyone who's ever wondered if things might have turned out differently

Beautiful, uplifting and wise. I surfaced from the last page, feeling as comforted as I was moved

A beautiful story that explores what it is to have a soul mate. It made me cry a lot - in a good way! - but it also made me think, as all the best books do

Ivy and Abe are impossible to forget even after you've closed the book. Beautiful and wonderfully observed

Perfectly pitched, thought-provoking and nuanced

Full of insight into the human experience

They're soulmates. 
 
Ivy and Abe were inseparable as children until an accident tore them apart. Several decades later, when both are in their seventies, a chance encounter reunites them. But time is not on their side. 
 
What if they'd met in a different time and place? 
 
In another life, Ivy and Abe meet in their forties, when both are married already. Unable to resist the attraction between them, they embark on a passionate affair. 
 
In yet another version, they marry young, with a bright future ahead of them - only for a dark shadow to threaten their happiness. 
 
Throughout various incarnations of their lives, they come together and go their separate ways, fall in and out of love, make or break promises. 
 
Ivy and Abe are meant to meet. But are they meant to be?

Meet Ivy and Abe. 
 
Childhood friends in the 1960s, Ivy and Abe were inseparable until a chance event tore them apart. Now in their early seventies, fate once again brings them together - both grey-haired, Ivy hand in hand with her grandson - to fill in the gaps of one another's lives. Each has experienced great passions as well as heart-breaking tragedies, but the time is finally right for them. Their love story seems, in the end, meant to be. 
 
But what if, in a parallel universe, chance had intervened and they'd met sooner? What if they'd met in their forties, both married to other people, and began an affair? What if they'd met before then and married, but the daunting question mark over Ivy's health had suffocated Abe's love for her? What if, as lovestruck teenagers, one small moment had sealed their fate? 
 
Ivy and Abe is a stunning novel about the different paths our lives might follow, and the different people we might become along the way.

Elizabeth Enfield

Life-affirming, tender and wise. After Beth is a vivid, often heart-wrenching exploration of grief and how we learn to carry on after the worst has happened. Get your tissues at the ready - this book is wonderful

Josie Lloyd, author of the 'The Cancer Ladies’ Running Club'

A story of devastating loss, told so keenly and perfectly. But it is also a book filled with hope and humanity, showing people in all their wonderful complexity. It will stay with me for a very long time

Araminta Hall, author of 'Perfect Strangers'

Heartrending in its depiction of a mother grappling her way through her worst nightmare, yet the overriding feeling is one of hope in the transformative powers of love and loss. A wonderful novel

Sasha Bates, author of 'A Grief Companion'

A compelling, compassionate, completely relatable read

Sue Teddern, author of 'Annie Stanley, All At Sea'

Explores love, loss, and how to live with both tenderly and with great insight

Beautiful, uplifting and wise. I surfaced from the last page, feeling as comforted as I was moved

A beautiful story that explores what it is to have a soul mate, and love in all its many guises. It made me cry a lot - in a good way! - but it also made me think, as all the best books do'

On a beautiful late-summer's morning, Cate Challoner's daughter, Beth, heads to the beach with her best friend. The girls will spend the day flirting with boys and enjoying the thrill of being young. Beth is eighteen and soon leaving home for college. Her mother is already missing her. 
 
That afternoon, the doorbell rings. Cate immediately knows something is wrong. CPR. Resuscitation. What do these words have to do with two teenagers enjoying an afternoon at the beach? 
 
Cate's daughter is her everything. Beth's presence at home is inescapable. How can a child stop existing? How can a mother survive such loss? Can a shattered world be put back together?

After Beth

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Life-affirming, tender and wise. After Beth is a vivid, often heart-wrenching exploration of grief and how we learn to carry on after the worst has happened. Get y ...

A story of devastating loss, told so keenly and perfectly. But it is also a book filled with hope and humanity, showing people in all their wonderful complexity. It will stay with me for a very long ...

Heartrending in its depiction of a mother grappling her way through her worst nightmare, yet the overriding feeling is one of hope in the transformative powers of love and loss. A wonderful nove ...

Life-affirming, tender and wise. After Beth is a vivid, often heart-wrenching exploration of grief and how we learn to carry on after the worst has happened. Get y ...

A story of devastating loss, told so keenly and perfectly. But it is also a book filled with hope and humanity, showing people in all their wonderful complexity. It will stay with me for a very long ...

Heartrending in its depiction of a mother grappling her way through her worst nightmare, yet the overriding feeling is one of hope in the transformative powers of love and loss. A wonderful nove ...

Life-affirming, tender and wise. After Beth is a vivid, often heart-wrenching exploration of grief and how we learn to carry on after the worst has happened. Get y ...

A story of devastating loss, told so keenly and perfectly. But it is also a book filled with hope and humanity, showing people in all their wonderful complexity. It will stay with me for a very long ...

Heartrending in its depiction of a mother grappling her way through her worst nightmare, yet the overriding feeling is one of hope in the transformative powers of love and loss. A wonderful nove ...

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