A love story for everyone who loves books.
'One of the loveliest, most exquisitely beautiful books I've read in a very long time ... I didn't just read the pages, I lived in them'Jennifer Niven, author of All the Bright Places
Two teens find their way back to each other in a bookstore full of secrets and crushes, grief and hope - and letters hidden between the pages.
Years ago, Rachel had a crush on Henry Jones. The day before she moved away, she tucked a love letter into his favourite book in his family's bookshop. She waited. But Henry never came.
Now Rachel has returned to the city - and to the bookshop - to work alongside the boy she'd rather not see, if at all possible, for the rest of her life. But Rachel needs the distraction. Her brother drowned months ago, and she can't feel anything anymore.
As Henry and Rachel work side by side - surrounded by books, watching love stories unfold, exchanging letters between the pages - they find hope in each other. Because life may be uncontrollable, even unbearable sometimes. But it's possible that words, and love, and second chances are enough.
Publisher: Hachette Children's Group
ISBN: 9781444907896
Number of pages: 352
Weight: 260 g
Dimensions: 196 x 128 x 26 mm
One of the loveliest, most exquisitely beautiful books I've read in a very long time... I didn't just read the pages, I lived in them. - Jennifer Niven, author of All the Bright Places
A big-hearted, stunner of a novel. Cath Crowley's gorgeous prose will make you both tear up and swoon. A beautifully honest meditation on grief and love. - Jasmine Warga, author of My Heart and Other Black Holes
Reading Words in Deep Blue feels a little bit like a slow dance, or falling in love, or swimming in the ocean on a rainy day. It's a stunning reminder of the power of words and books and stories that will leave your heart full and heavy and hungry for more. Cath Crowley is magic. - Krystal Sutherland, author of Our Chemical Hearts
Original, wise, and essential. . . . This love story is an ode to words and life. - Kirkus Reviews, starred review
Crowley has built a warm cast of surprising and memorable characters and placed them in universal circumstances that slowly unfold into something extraordinary. - Booklist, starred review
I am very glad that I requested this book; I first saw it on my bookseller best friend's shelf and was immediately intrigued and thought it looked right up my street, and, luckily, I was not wrong! I... More
3,75/5 stars.
I started Words in Deep Blue without really knowing much about it except that half of it takes place in a bookstore. But I was extremely surprised by how much deeper this book was than what I first...
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This is the story of Rachel and Henry, friends since childhood.
It begins with Rachel in her early teens, about to move to the coast with her mother and brother. It’s now or never; she’s had feelings for her best...
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