Impossible - Sarah Lotz

Description

Discover the love story of the year

‘It’s the book we all need right now’ SARAH PINBOROUGH
‘Warm, funny, thrilling’ EMMA GANNON
‘Unputdownable’ JENNIFER SAINT
‘Holy s***’ GILLIAN MCALLISTER
‘Breathtakingly good’ JOSIE SILVER

The book with the IMPOSSIBLE twist – read it to believe it …

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Nick: Failed writer. Failed husband. Dog owner.

Bee: Serial dater. Dress maker. Pringles enthusiast.

One day, their paths cross over a misdirected email. The connection is instant, electric. They feel like they’ve known each other all their lives.

Nick buys a new suit, gets on a train. Bee steps away from her desk, sets off to meet him under the clock at Euston station.

Think you know how the rest of the story goes? They did too . . .

But this is a story with more twists than most. This is Impossible.

Review

One of my favourite films is You've Got Mail and the synopsis of this book sounded like it was along the same lines. When I began reading my first thoughts were that this is not in the same league as that film, but I was soon proven so wrong.

The first part of the book is the beginnings of the email exchange between Nick and Bee and some of their backstories. At the end of this part they set out to meet one another. Is this just a case of clever catfishing?

Part two is where this book took such a twist it took me by surprise and I was hooked into this book until the end. This is not a rom com per se, with some serious issues being dealt with such as suicide and coercive relationships.

It's difficult to say more without spoilers. I will say that this is a genius novel and the writing is superb and worthy of one of my favourite authors Jack Finney. At the end of the book I read it twice over, did it mean what I thought it did? Then came unexpected tears. A book not to be forgotten.

I'm giving this book five out of five stars. My thanks to netgalley and Harperfiction for the ARC to review.

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