Description
Vince Mellon and Joy Downer meet as late-blooming teenagers on a beach holiday, sharing an intense first romance before life, distance, and missed connections pull them apart. As the years pass, they build separate lives through changing relationships, careers, friendships, and family pressures, while an enduring bond quietly remains beneath the surface. Spanning adolescence to adulthood, this warm and witty love story explores timing, memory, communication, and the question of whether two people can find their way back to one another. With lively characters and an engaging, emotionally generous style, it offers a charming portrait of love unfolding across a lifetime.
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paperback
Harper Paperbacks
Published Oct 3, 2006
512 pages
ISBN: 9780061137464
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Details
First Published
2006
Language
eng
Content Warnings
Content and trigger warnings for Vince and Joy by Lisa Jewell.