Do you believe in love at first sight? Laurie spots the perfect man waiting at the bus stop. She spends the next year searching for him with no luck. Then her best friend Sarah brings home her new boyfriend Jack and is the bus boy! Part of her is thrilled to find him at last while the rest of her is devastated as she can’t bear to reveal the truth to her bestie. Can she put her feelings for Jack aside or will love at first sight really triumph…?
One Day In December is a love story set in London that spans years.
Laurie is sat on board a bus when she sees a man at the bus stop outside. The pair exchange a look but the moment is too fleeting to act. This is a life defining moment for both of them although we only see Laurie’s desperate attempts to find him. A year later and she is excited to finally meet her best friend’s new man but manages to hide her shock when he is revealed to be the man she has been longing for.
The book is written from the perspectives of Laurie and Jack. The narration of the audiobook was superb and really brought the characters to life, and the chatty intimately personal style of writing suits audio narration perfectly. It was wonderful to see both sides and the angst that both main characters are feeling. Neither of them want to betray Sarah so they are both battling against their secret desires.
One Day In December is an enjoyable romance and I liked the tense emotions.
Book blurb:
Two people. Ten chances. One unforgettable love story.
Laurie is pretty sure love at first sight doesn’t exist anywhere but the movies. But then, through a misted-up bus window one snowy December day, she sees a man who she knows instantly is the one. Their eyes meet, there’s a moment of pure magic…and then her bus drives away.
Certain they’re fated to find each other again, Laurie spends a year scanning every bus stop and cafe in London for him. But she doesn’t find him, not when it matters anyway. Instead they “reunite” at a Christmas party, when her best friend Sarah giddily introduces her new boyfriend to Laurie. It’s Jack, the man from the bus. It would be.
What follows for Laurie, Sarah and Jack is ten years of friendship, heartbreak, missed opportunities, roads not taken, and destinies reconsidered. One Day in December is a joyous, heartwarming and immensely moving love story to escape into and a reminder that fate takes inexplicable turns along the route to happiness.
