Books that make you crave a soulmate
Curated by @shelfthreads · 9 books
For anyone who believes in the one: two people who find each other young, lose each other to time and keep coming back, across years and decades.
- 1
One Day
David Nicholls
Emma and Dexter meet on graduation night in 1988 Edinburgh, and we drop in on them every 15 July for twenty years of near misses.
- 2
Normal People
Sally Rooney
Connell and Marianne keep finding and losing each other, from a small town in the west of Ireland to their student years in Dublin.
- 3
Talking at Night
Claire Daverley
Will and Rosie grow up in the same English village, talking for hours on late-night phone calls and almost getting together, again and again, across a decade.
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