What I appreciated about this book was how Lucy Diamond considered the repercussions of these events on all three main parties with all the complications that real life entails.

There are missed chances of happiness, which give the story a “sliding doors” element, and twists which cause the reader to doubt the outcome you are expecting and hoping for.I am speaking from personal experience as I was almost exactly in the same position as Eliza, though a bit older than her. What happens when they track him down and Lara is face to face with him that she has not seen for a very long time.

Lara finds herself pregnant and alone despite attempts to contact Ben and brings her daughter Eliza up as a single parent.uk/landing-page/quercus/quercus-company-information/">The data controller is Quercus Editions Ltd. Het verhaal heeft een rustig tempo en ze neemt de tijd voor uitgebreide karakterschetsen, afgewisseld met inkijkjes in de gedachten van deze mensen, waardoor je iedereen goed leert kennen. Fast forward nineteen years and Eliza is an angry young woman confronting her father about why he left her and her mother when she was only small. Lara doesn’t want her child to grow up without a father as she did, so she gets together with Steve, letting him believe the child is his.

Ze hebben nooit meer contact gehad en hoewel Lara’s onverwachte zwangerschap voor een nieuw leven vol uitdagingen en aanpassingen zorgde, heeft haar dochter Eliza, die is uitgegroeid tot een pittige, eigenwijze en doortastende tiener, haar altijd geluk gebracht. Lara is a strong lady who has been through some hard times in her life but spent the last 20 years being the best mum that she could be.But when Eliza turns eighteen and wants to connect with her father, Lara is forced to admit a secret that she has been keeping from her daughter her whole life. The sensational and uplifting new novel from the Sunday Times bestselling author of An Almost Perfect Holiday and The Beach Café --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. the story is based on love and second chances but there is also an element of how we can be lead down a completely different path that we were expecting to go down. Their connection is instant and all consuming, both of them thinking 'This is the One', they arrange to meet that night - but fail to connect. The arrangement of a second date was exciting – the fact that the date didn’t happen, devastating for Lara.