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Destination: London Departure Time: 1999 and 2010
Do you remember your first love? And would you want to meet them again?
The Best Thing That Never Happened To Me
What you need to know before your trail
Growing up as teenagers in Yorkshire and now both living in London. Holly is now a PA and sleeping with her boss whilst Alex has moved down to London to work as a teacher. They have grown up together and their friendship is one that has seen them both grow and grow up but their love for one another has never faded. When both in London, there is the chance to finally reveal what the other one feels and to find out if there really could be a Holly and Alex,a couple, after all.
But it’s hard going back isn’t it? Crossing that line?
Travel Guide
“They say you should never go back but everyone does, Everything comes back for a second go. Look at Flares. And Whispa Gold, And Take bloody That.”
(Ficitional Mothston) Yorkshire
In fictional Mothston, somewhere in Yorkshire close to Leeds as that’s where Alex’s dad holds a season ticket, Alex and Holly grow up and have the kind of conversations familiar to teenagers up and down the land.
London
Fast forward ten years and now both living in London, Alex is worried that he wont last two minutes outside of Mothston. He’s excited about his new school and of seeing the sights such as the natural history museum and Shakespeare at the globe. With a new school in Deptford, his friend Kev tells him not to resort to Yorkshire slang such as ‘Ay up, lad”
Holly is also is strange waters for sleeping with your boss is not the best career move. Richard is a panto baddie of sorts – the only obstacle getting in the way of true love. Melissa works with Holly and does not have her best interests at heart. Kev is Alex’s sidekick and does.
London is a big place but whether these two will ever manage to get it together is another thing entirely.
Booktrailer Review
Clare: @thebooktrailer
Laura Tait writing as Holly and Jimmy Rice writing as Alex makes for a great and realistic comedy setting of two people sailing through life side by side but acting like ships that pass in the night at the same time.
Holly and Alex are fun characters to get to know. Nerdy Alex who ventures out from remote Yorkshire to the big smoke and Holly who has already moved there but has got herself into a risking relationship with her boss.
A lot here was easy to relate to – the things we say and do when young and the way when you return to your primary school, you are always strangely surprised that everything seems so small!
The writing was cheeky and fun and this is a nice slow burn romance and story of misunderstandings that will make you smile.
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