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The urgency and inexperience of first love, the unplanned paths lives take, the ache of “what if…?” wondering, and the smoulder of second chances, Charlotte Rixon’s The One That Got Away is a gripping, smartly plotted page-turner. At times dark, and always bristling with suspense, it’s rooted in relatable emotional experiences, with explosive events and decisions inviting “what would you have done?” questions.
Worlds apart in their backgrounds, Clara and Ben fall for each other in Newcastle as young adults, before being ripped apart by an earth-shattering event that sends them careering down different paths.
Twenty years on, as Clara is having doubts about her life choices (“I just feel sometimes like my life has gone off-track somewhere. That I’m living the wrong life. The wrong version of my life”), a bombing in Newcastle sends Clara back to the city to make sure Ben is safe. After two decades of occasional, tentative contact, and deep-rooted feelings of regret, the stage is set for a tense reunion, with the events of the past cleverly revealed through an edgy dual-character, dual-timeframe narrative.
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The One That Got Away Synopsis
For fans of Colleen Hoover and Rosie Walsh: this book will break your heart... then put it back together.
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.
About This Edition
| ISBN: |
9781804540008 |
| Publication date: |
18th January 2024 |
| Author: |
Charlotte Rixon |
| Publisher: |
Aria an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing PLC |
| Format: |
Paperback |
| Pagination: |
416 pages |
| Primary Genre |
Modern and Contemporary Fiction
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About Charlotte Rixon
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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