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Ordinary Love

'This summer's smart beach read' (Grazia)

Format: Hardback
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A STYLIST BEST NEW RELEASE OF 2025

'
This summer's smart beach read' GRAZIA, '25 Things for 2025'

'Profoundly moving' EMILY ST. JOHN MANDEL, bestselling author of STATION ELEVEN

'A sweeping, decades-spanning tale of queer desire' MARIE CLAIRE

'Almost unbearably beautiful' EMILIA HART, bestselling author of WEYWARD

'Had me hooked from the first page' JENNIE GODFREY, bestselling author of THE LIST OF SUSPICIOUS THINGS
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There's no such thing as an ordinary love story
When Emily catches sight of Gennifer Hall at a party, she is transported back to the moment they fell in love as teenagers. Their connection was electric, and they thought it was forever.

Twenty years later, Gen is an Olympic runner, the career she strived for, while Emily is living a picture-perfect life: Manhattan townhouse, two young children and a wealthy husband, Jack. But Jack's controlling behaviour is spiralling, and Emily has lost sight of who she once was.

Now, despite Emily's fracturing marriage and the pressures of Gen's career, they are drawn back together by a magnetic attraction. After years of heartbreak, missed chances and misunderstandings, will they finally get a second chance at first love?

A sweeping love story about desire, friendship, mistakes and the possibility of second chances, for fans of The Paper Palace and Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow
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'I loved this moving, tender story about lost love and second chances' RED

'Immersive and insightful' LISA OWENS, author of NOT WORKING

'[A] raw, gorgeous debut' THE i PAPER

'A tender romance' WOMAN & HOME

'A gorgeously written love story' GOOD HOUSEKEEPING

'Shining with rare clarity' SAINSBURY'S MAGAZINE


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Authors:
Rutkoski, Marie
Year Published:
2025
Country of Publication:
United Kingdom
Format:
Hardback
ISBN:
9780349146881
Number of Pages:
368
Publication Date:
12/06/2025
Publisher:
Little, Brown Book Group
Language:
English
Place of Publication:
London
Imprint:
Virago Press Ltd
SKU:
9780349146881

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