A Walk To Remember by Nicholas Sparks

A Walk To Remember

by Nicholas Sparks

Can you resist the depths of the human heart?

It is 1958 and seventeen-year-old Landon is revelling in his youth: dating girls and even claiming to have been in love. He is a world apart from shy, reclusive Jamie Sullivan, a Baptist's daughter who carries a bible with her school books, cares for her widowed father and volunteers at the orphanage. But fate will intervene.

Forced to partner up at the school dance, Landon and Jamie embark on a journey of earth-shattering love and agonising loss far beyond their years. In the months that follow, Landon discovers the true depths of the human heart, and takes a decision that is so stunning it will lead him irrevocably down the road to manhood . . .

Reviewed by Emma (SCR) on

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This review was originally posted on Star Crossed Reviews Firstly I would like to say Nicholas Sparks write the best book boyfriends. I think this is a widely agreed statement. He also writes the saddest books. I have read 3 books by Sparks and I have cried during every single one of them.

I knew the story for this book as I watched the film years ago. Having already watched the film ruined this a bit for me as there was a storyline in the film which did not feature in the book. I was a little saddened by this as, part of this is one of my best memories of the film.

Back to the book, this is a very moving but romantic book. Seeing Landon change so quickly but so deeply and so irrevocably is amazing. Deep down he had the ability to be this wonderful person but the one to see it and bring it out in him was Jamie. Jamie is one of those characters you can't help but love. She's so happy despite everything that's happened to her. She is always thinking of others before herself.

I would recommend this book to all those chick-lit lovers out there but make sure you have a box of tissues handy.

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