Laurie is pretty sure love, at first sight, doesn't exist. After all, life isn't a scene from the movies, is it? But then, through a misted-up bus window one snowy December day, she sees a man she knows instantly is the one. Their eyes meet, there's a moment of pure magic...and then her bus drives away.
Laurie thinks she'll never see the boy from the bus again. But at their Christmas party a year later, her best friend Sarah introduces her to the new love of her life. Whois, of course, the boy from the bus.
Determined to let him go, Laurie gets on with her life. But what if fate has other plans?
Following Laurie, Sarah and Jack through ten years of love, heartbreak, and friendship, One Day in December is an uplifting, heart-warming and an immensely moving love story that you'll want to escape into forever, for fans of Jojo Moyes, Lucy Diamond, and Nicholas Sparks.
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[It's a wonder everyone who uses public transport in winter doesn't keel over and die of germ overload)(Penguin,23 August 2018, 413 pages, ebook bought from Amazon, Reese's Book Club x HelloSunshine)
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OneDay in December is not my usual sort of book, a heterosexual love story. I thoroughly enjoyed it though, which shows you never can tell how you will respond to something and it can be good to step outside your comfort zone. It's a fun, entertaining read, light and frothy, happy and sad at times. When it comes to love I'm weak. I could relate to Laure. I experienced love at first sight myself. My story has a happy ending a lot sooner than Laurie's. I knew I loved my partner the first moment I saw her. I didn't know her name and hadn't said a word to her. I just knew in that instant she was the one for me. We've been together for 13 years. So, of course, I rooted for Laurie and Jack from day one. I thought I knew how One Day in December would play out. I was right in some ways and so wrong in many others. I'm happy they got their in the end and found the journey delightful.
