


I feel like Im longtime friends with every one of her characters. NetGalley helps publishers and authors promote digital review copies to book advocates and industry professionals. Genevieve Wheeler writes with brilliant clarity and specificity. With unflinching honesty and heart, this relatable debut from a fresh new voice explores grief and mental health while capturing the timeless nature of what it’s like to be young and in love-with your friends, with your city, and with a person who cannot, will not, love you back.Ī Macmillan Audio production from St. Adelaide Genevieve Wheeler 9781250280848 NetGalley. In it, Genevieve Wheeler perfectly captures the exquisite pain of being head-over-heels in love with someone whose feelings don't match yours and poignantly celebrates the people on our journeys who make life worth living. When love asks too much of us, how do we find the strength to put ourselves first? 'Adelaide is a beautifully-written, deeply-felt exploration of what it means to love and be loved. Then, when Rory is rocked by an unexpected tragedy, Adelaide does everything in her power to hold him together-even if it means losing herself in the process. But when he shines his light on her, the world makes sense, and Adelaide is convinced that, in his heart, he’s fallen just as deeply as she has. “A beautifully-written, deeply felt exploration of what it means to love and be loved.”–– Jill Santopolo, New York Times bestselling author of The Light We Lostįor twenty-six-year-old Adelaide Williams, an American living in dreamy London, meeting Rory Hughes was like a lightning bolt out of the blue: this charming Englishman was The One she wasn’t even looking for.ĭoes he respond to texts? Honor his commitments? Make advance plans? Sometimes, rarely, and no, not at all.
