Lynn
Written on Jan 16, 2018
David Hadley is 51 years old, lonely, overweight, depressed, and contemplating suicide. Every day after work, David, a reluctant accountant, climbs the 69 flights of stairs in his office building, the tallest in Seattle. And each day when he reaches the top step, he places his hand on the handle of the always locked roof access door and makes himself a promise that if the door ever opens he'll walk to the edge and jump. His routine quickly becomes mindless habit, until the day he finds the door unlocked. Standing 900 feet above the concrete sidewalk, David is startled by a woman who appears next to him on the ledge. "What if you change your mind half way down?" she asks. It's a question for which David has no good answer. After a brief and mysterious interaction, the woman leaps from the building herself, leaving David on the ledge to watch as her parachute opens and she disappears into the fog below. Captivated by their conversation, David develops an obsession to learn the identity of the Barefoot BASE Jumper. It's almost a full year later, after David has all but given up on his search for the woman who saved his life, when he sees her picture in an advertisement for an animal rescue called Echo Glen.
What follows is a humorous and touching love story that develops slowly between David and June-a romance that will take them from the lush valleys of Washington's mountains all the way to El Camino de Santiago, across Spain, and then back again. Along the way, June must come to grips with a diagnosis that will change everything that she loves about her life, and David must learn that in order to truly live you must sometimes let go of fear and let yourself fall in love.
- ISBN10 1476771278
- ISBN13 9781476771274
- Publish Date 2 July 2015
- Publish Status Transferred
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Atria Books
- Format Paperback (US Trade)
- Pages 336
- Language English
Reviews
Cocktails and Books
Written on Aug 9, 2015
This is the first Ryan Winfield book I have read, so I didn’t know quite know what to expect from Falling for June. I was pleasantly surprised by how much I enjoyed this read! Winfield has a wonderful way of transporting the reader to the past. I felt very much a part of David and June’s love story. Readers learn about David and June’s story of love and adventure as David is telling it to Elliot. I did not expect to fall in love with the characters as much as I did. I was as rapt listening to David’s story as Elliot was and was all along hoping that Elliot would find true love as well. This was a very emotional read. I felt the characters’ pain, love, longing, despair—I know that sounds as corny as hell, but it’s the darn truth! I had tears streaming down my face for half of this book! Read this book. It is touching and awesome. I will definitely be looking for more of Winfield’s books to fall into!
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