Part of The Notebook
First published 2005
Wilson Lewis has spent thirty years being a reliable husband. He built a career as an estate attorney, paid the bills, and kept the household running. What he never learned to do was say what he felt. Now, standing in the shadow of his in-laws Allie and Noah Calhoun, whose fifty-year love story is the stuff of legend, Wilson looks at his wife Jane and realizes something has quietly broken. With their daughter's wedding approaching, the gap between them is impossible to ignore. He suspects Jane no longer loves him. He is certain he still loves her, more than ever. So Wilson sets out to do something he has never done well: pursue her. He uses the memory of Allie and Noah's marriage as a kind of blueprint, studying what devotion actually looks like in practice. The novel follows his efforts to close the distance between them before it becomes permanent. At its center is a simple question: can a man who spent decades showing love the wrong way learn to show it right?
Genres: fiction, literary-fiction, contemporary, adult, adult-fiction, contemporary-romance
Vibes: emotional, intimate, introspective, poignant, reflective, tender
Tropes: emotional-journey, marriage-in-crisis, redemption-arc, second-chance-romance
Period: contemporary
276 pages · Mass Market Paperback · Vision