The Notebook: The love story to end all love stories
By (Author) Nicholas Sparks
Little, Brown Book Group
Sphere
1st February 2008
1st November 2007
United Kingdom
General
Fiction
813.54
Paperback
272
Width 184mm, Height 196mm, Spine 16mm
188g
How far can love endure
Noah Calhoun has just returned from World War Two. Attempting to escape the ghosts of battle, he tries to concentrate on restoring an old plantation home to its former glory. And yet he is haunted by images of the beautiful girl he met there fourteen years before, a girl who captured his heart like no other.But when these distant memories begin to slide into reality, the passion that had lain still is ignited once more. Though so much is in their way, the miraculous force of their love refuses to fade.'"Somewhere," muses Noah Calhoun, while sitting on his porch in the moonight, "there were people making love." Anyway, head elsewhere for Great Literature, but if you're in the market to get your heartstrings plucked, look no further. The Notebook, a Southern-fried story of love-lost-and-found-again, revolves around a single time-honored romantic dilemma: will beautiful Allison Nelson stay with Mr. Respectability (to whom she happens to be engaged), or will she hook up with Noah, the romantic rascal she left so many years ago We're not telling, but you have two guesses and the first one doesn't count. Decades later, after Allison develops Alzheimer's, her beau uses "the notebook" to read her the story of the great love she's plumb forgot. The Notebook--film rights already sold, thank you very much--is a little glazed doughnut of a book: sticky- sweet, satisfying, not much nourishment. But who cares Take an extra vitamin and indulge.' - Amazon.com 'Achingly moving and will have you weeping for the joy and tragedy of it all' - Daily Mail
This is Nicholas Sparks's tenth novel. He lives in North Carolina with his wife and children.