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Ivy and Abe

If you liked Jojo Moyes' Me Before You this is the perfect new read for you . . . a story for anyone who has ever wondered what if . . . ?

If you liked David Nicholls' One Day or Jojo Moyes' Me Before You, you'll love this uplifting read

Explores beautifully the way in which so-called ordinary lives play out

If you liked David Nicholls' One Day or Jojo Moyes' Me Before You, you'll love this uplifting read

The same pair of lovers find and lose each other through the decades . . . a novel full of emotional truth

Think Sliding Doors meets One Day. Follow two childhood friends through the lives they could have had together and wonder if there's a right person for everyone or just a right time

A moving and thought-provoking novel in the tradition of Sliding Doors and The Versions of Us. One for anyone who's ever wondered if things might have turned out differently

Beautiful, uplifting and wise. I surfaced from the last page, feeling as comforted as I was moved

A beautiful story that explores what it is to have a soul mate. It made me cry a lot - in a good way! - but it also made me think, as all the best books do

Ivy and Abe are impossible to forget even after you've closed the book. Beautiful and wonderfully observed

Perfectly pitched, thought-provoking and nuanced

Full of insight into the human experience

The Epic Love Story You Won't Want To Miss

'If you liked David Nicholls' One Day or Jojo Moyes' Me Before You, you'll love this uplifting read' Take a Break 
 
Two people. One love story. A million possibilities. 
 
Ivy and Abe are soulmates. But what if they meet at the wrong time? 
 
 Told over Ivy's lifetime, across a series of alternate realities, Ivy &amp; Abe is a story for anyone who has ever wondered 'what if?' 
 
If you liked One Day in December, Me Before You, and One Day, you'll be captivated by this love story. 
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'Think 'Sliding Doors' meets One Day' Red 
 
'An epic love story' Araminta Hall

They're soulmates. 
 
Ivy and Abe were inseparable as children until an accident tore them apart. Several decades later, when both are in their seventies, a chance encounter reunites them. But time is not on their side. 
 
What if they'd met in a different time and place? 
 
In another life, Ivy and Abe meet in their forties, when both are married already. Unable to resist the attraction between them, they embark on a passionate affair. 
 
In yet another version, they marry young, with a bright future ahead of them - only for a dark shadow to threaten their happiness. 
 
Throughout various incarnations of their lives, they come together and go their separate ways, fall in and out of love, make or break promises. 
 
Ivy and Abe are meant to meet. But are they meant to be?

Meet Ivy and Abe. 
 
Childhood friends in the 1960s, Ivy and Abe were inseparable until a chance event tore them apart. Now in their early seventies, fate once again brings them together - both grey-haired, Ivy hand in hand with her grandson - to fill in the gaps of one another's lives. Each has experienced great passions as well as heart-breaking tragedies, but the time is finally right for them. Their love story seems, in the end, meant to be. 
 
But what if, in a parallel universe, chance had intervened and they'd met sooner? What if they'd met in their forties, both married to other people, and began an affair? What if they'd met before then and married, but the daunting question mark over Ivy's health had suffocated Abe's love for her? What if, as lovestruck teenagers, one small moment had sealed their fate? 
 
Ivy and Abe is a stunning novel about the different paths our lives might follow, and the different people we might become along the way.

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