This is a lovely story, well written and tender, both heart warming and heartbreaking.
Ivy is a make-up artist and Fisher is a director, they get together and Ivy falls pregnant. Fisher stands by her sensing that despite their brief liaison he is falling for Ivy. She in turn is falling for him.
This is a story about how two people come together and form a relationship. They have their up and downs and awkward moments, meeting each others family , who to spend their first Christmas with and Frank, (Ivy’s brother) unexpected stay with them.
At times it looks as if events and circumstances are going to break them apart. El, Fisher’s best friends is dying, he has Huntingdon’s and Fisher has to deal with this as well as the rapidly approaching birth of his children. Not to mention directing his first film penned by a colleague.
Somehow the two of them forge ahead. The characters are warm and well drawn, the relationships depicted touching and the emotions pull at the heartstrings. I haven’t read a book for a long time that made me feel happy and sad by the end and I would love to know what happened to Ivy and Fisher a few years down the line!
5 out of 5
