The Light We Lost

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We all know, the heart wants what it wants and sometimes that doesn't always equate to rational choices. There’s just something about Christmas and the UK that’s a recipe for modern rom-coms that will have you running for the mistletoe. What follows is a journey that brings the two of them together and tears them apart, dividing and reuniting them repeatedly over the next thirteen years as Gabe becomes a photojournalist in the Middle East and Lucy pursues a life and career in New York City. Jill, 37, works at a children’s publisher in New York: ‘The inspiration for this was a broken heart. So how, children, does the brain, which lives without a spark of light, build for us a world full of light?

Lucy and Gabe meet as seniors at Columbia University on a day that changes both of their lives forever. She states that it would definitely give off the wrong message if she did not bring Violet with her.She’s reminiscing in a way—pouring her heart out to her first love Gabe, sharing her thoughts about what was so right and in hindsight what should have given her pause—were the choices they made way back when the right ones? For her book club's February selection, Reese Witherspoon has picked The Light We Lost, and it's just one of over a dozen books the Big Little Lies actor-producer has recommended on Instagram so far this year.

in " The BookBrowse Review" - BookBrowse's membership magazine, and in our weekly " Publishing This Week" newsletter. Marie-Laure can sit in an attic high above the street and hear lilies rustling in marshes two miles away.

I recently devoured this delicious novel, which follows a young woman who falls in love at first sight with someone who soon becomes her best friend’s long-term boyfriend. Silver’s lovely debut follows two young Londoners after a missed connection alters the course of their lives… Silv­­er’s propulsive narrative is enjoyable, and the mix of tension and affection between Jack and Laurie is charming, addictive, and effective. Lucy was her own worst enemy by asking herself these questions when she should have just asked Gabe directly (by phone might have been better! Written with Josie Silver’s signature charm, One Night on the Island explores the meaning of home, the joys of escape, and how the things we think we want are never the things we really need.