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'A SEXY SUMMER ROMANCE' DAILY MAIL 'A GRIPPING MODERN LOVE STORY' THE TIMES 'SOME OF THE BEST SEX SCENES I'VE READ THIS YEAR' GUARDIAN 'ONE FOR ROMANCE FANS EVERYWHERE' MARIE CLAIRE 'THIS SUMMER'S SMART BEACH READ' GRAZIA 'WILL BREAK YOU THEN PUT YOU BACK TOGETHER AGAIN' STYLIST 'UNBEARABLY BEAUTIFUL' EMILIA HART 'A SEXY PAGE TURNER' MADELEINE GRAY _________________________________________________________________________ There's no such thing as an ordinary love story When Emily catches sight of Gennifer Hall at a party, she is transported back to the moment they fell in love as teenagers. Their connection was electric, and they thought it was forever. Now Gen is an Olympic runner, the career she strived for, while Emily is living a picture-perfect life with her two young children and wealthy husband, Jack. But Jack's controlling behaviour is spiralling, and Emily has lost sight of who she once was. Despite everything keeping them apart, Emily and Gen still feel that magnetic attraction. After years of heartbreak, missed chances and misunderstandings, will they ?nally get a second chance at ?rst love? _________________________________________________________________________ 'AN IMMERSIVE, GLAMOROUS, SEXY AND GRIPPING MODERN LOVE STORY TO GULP DOWN HUNGRILY AND QUICKLY' SUNDAY TIMES 'SLIPS DOWN AS EASILY AS OYSTERS AND CHAMPAGNE' DAILY MAIL 'A TENDER ROMANCE' WOMAN & HOME 'IMMERSIVE AND INSIGHTFUL' LISA OWENS, AUTHOR OF NOT WORKING AND NATURAL DISASTER 'AN EXQUISITELY TENDER PORTRAYAL OF ENDURING LOVE' OBSERVER 'A GORGEOUSLY WRITTEN LOVE STORY' GOOD HOUSEKEEPING 'HAD ME HOOKED FROM THE FIRST PAGE' JENNIE GODFREY, AUTHOR OF THE LIST OF SUSPICIOUS THINGS 'PROFOUNDLY MOVING' EMILY ST. JOHN MANDEL, AUTHOR OF STATION ELEVEN 'A MOVING, TENDER STORY ABOUT LOST LOVE AND SECOND CHANCES' RED 'I'M OBSESSED WITH THIS NOVEL. IT DEMANDS OBSESSION' HOLLY BRICKLEY, AUTHOR OF DEEP CUTS 'FUNNY AND MOVING AND SEXY' J. COURTNEY SULLIVAN, AUTHOR OF THE CLIFFS '[A] RAW, GORGEOUS DEBUT' THE I PAPER 'SHINING WITH RARE CLARITY' SAINSBURY'S MAGAZINE READERS ARE RAVING: ????? 'So raw and so real . . . If there's one book you read this year, it should be this one' ????? 'I absolutely devoured this . . . Clear your afternoon to read this one straight through' ?????'The characters were so rea

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I stayed up way too late to finish this beautifully written novel, which had me hooked from the first page. A truthful, hopeful look at navigating family, life and love. * Jennie Godfrey, bestselling author of The List of Suspicious Things * This is an almost unbearably beautiful love story. Emily and Gen feel completely real: on the rare occasion I managed to put this book down, I thought about them constantly. It broke my heart to let them go when I turned the final page. Ordinary Love is extraordinary. * Emilia Hart, bestselling author of Weyward * This novel is remarkable and profoundly moving. A beautifully written, intelligent, quietly hopeful story about being lost and found. * Emily St. John Mandel, bestselling author of Sea of Tranquility * A sweeping tale. Tender, truthful and gorgeously written, I devoured it in a few days. * Samuel Burr, bestselling author of The Fellowship of Puzzlemakers * Ordinary Love sparkles with the excitement, danger and wonder of love in all its forms * Sophie Ward, Booker Prize longlisted author of The Schoolhouse * Evocative and emotional, surprising and propulsive, the whole of it brimming with tenderness. Rutkowski's prose is poetic and sharp, writing to be savored. Perhaps most unforgettable is the chemistry between Emily and Gen, which crackles and explodes on the page * Carola Lovering, bestselling author of Tell Me Lies and Bye, Baby * This summer's smart beach read, with shades of Pineapple Street and The Paper Palace * Grazia * Once in a while one of those truly brilliant books comes along that takes over your life - and, for 2025, Ordinary Love is the book hitting the spot * Stylist *

Once in a while one of those truly brilliant books comes along that takes over your life - and, for 2025, Ordinary Love is the book hitting the spot * Stylist * This summer's smart beach read, with shades of Pineapple Street and The Paper Palace * Grazia * An immersive, glamorous, sexy and gripping modern love story to gulp down hungrily and quickly * Sunday Times * This sexy, summer romance slips down as easily as oysters and champagne * Daily Mail * An exquisitely tender and beautifully written portrayal of enduring love * Observer * A gorgeous queer literary romance * ELLE, The Best Books of the Summer 2025 * A page-turning romance * Guardian * Vivid . . . A sweeping, decades-spanning tale of queer desire and thwarted ambition . . . Beautifully rendered and touchingly told, this is one for romance fans everywhere * Marie Claire * I stayed up way too late to finish this beautifully written novel, which had me hooked from the first page. A truthful, hopeful look at navigating family, life and love. -- Jennie Godfrey, bestselling author of THE LIST OF SUSPICIOUS THINGS This is an almost unbearably beautiful love story. Emily and Gen feel completely real: on the rare occasion I managed to put this book down, I thought about them constantly. It broke my heart to let them go when I turned the final page. Ordinary Love is extraordinary. -- Emilia Hart, bestselling author of WEYWARD I'm obsessed with this novel. It demands obsession because it is so rich with feeling and nuance; you fall into a vat of emotion as you read, the way its heroine falls into her desire. A must for lovers of Sally Rooney, extremely sexy love stories, and characters who feel so real you see them in your dreams. A must for lovers, full stop -- Holly Brickley, author of DEEP CUTS This novel is remarkable and profoundly moving. A beautifully written, intelligent, quietly hopeful story about being lost and found. -- Emily St. John Mandel, bestselling author of THE SEA OF TRANSQUILITY A brilliant examination of queerness, friendship, motherhood, longing and ambition. It's funny and moving and sexy. Above all, it's a stunning love story -- J. Courtney Sullivan, bestselling author of THE CLIFFS A sweeping tale. Tender, truthful and gorgeously written, I devoured it in a few days. -- Samuel Burr, bestselling author of THE FELLOWSHIP OF PUZZLEMAKERS Ordinary Love sparkles with the excitement, danger and wonder of love in all its forms -- Sophie Ward, Booker Prize longlisted author of THE SCHOOLHOUSE Evocative and emotional, surprising and propulsive, the whole of it brimming with tenderness. Rutkowski's prose is poetic and sharp, writing to be savored. Perhaps most unforgettable is the chemistry between Emily and Gen, which crackles and explodes on the page -- Carola Lovering, bestselling author of TELL ME LIES AND BYE, BABY Shining with rare clarity * Sainsbury's Magazine * [A] raw, gorgeous debut * The i Paper * This book will break you then put you back together again * Stylist, Book of the Month *

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Marie Rutkoski is a New York Times bestselling author of several novels for children and young adults. She grew up in Illinois as the oldest of four children, and has lived in Moscow, Prague, and Paris. She holds degrees from the University of Iowa and Harvard University, and is now a professor of English literature at Brooklyn College, where she teaches Shakespeare, children's literature, and fiction writing. She lives in Brooklyn with her family and two cats, Cloud and Firefly.

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