After thirty years of marriage and a forgotten anniversary, a reserved lawyer sets out to make his wife fall in love with him again
Winning back a wife
Wilson Lewis is a successful estate lawyer, a good provider and a careful, quiet man. After nearly thirty years of marriage, he realizes he has lost something important: his wife Jane no longer seems to love him, and he forgot their last anniversary entirely. Jane is the daughter of Noah and Allie Calhoun, whose legendary love story set the standard Wilson has never felt he could match.
Who will enjoy it
Readers who loved The Notebook and enjoy gentle, heartfelt stories about long marriages and late-blooming romance.
What you will get
A gentle, heartfelt companion to The Notebook about a quiet husband who sets out to make his wife fall in love with him again.
The Wedding Facts: Pages, Genre and Setting
Genre
Romance · Marriage · Second chances · North Carolina
Length
304 pages · ≈ 9 h
More about this book
Most love stories end at the wedding; this one is about what happens decades later. Wilson is an unusual hero for Sparks, a reserved, practical man who admits he does not know how to be romantic. His project of courting Jane all over again is touching precisely because it is clumsy: he cooks dinners, plans small surprises and asks his ageing father-in-law, Noah, for advice. Their conversations are among the most moving parts of the book.
Complicating his plans, their daughter Anna announces that she wants to get married within a week, and Jane throws herself into the preparations, leaving Wilson to wonder whether his efforts are even noticed. Sparks keeps the tone warm and quietly funny, and he writes with real tenderness about the long middle of a marriage, when love has become habit. The final chapters bring a surprise that many readers find deeply satisfying.
It works on its own, but readers who know The Notebook will appreciate seeing Noah again. It is one of Sparks's gentlest books, with no great tragedy at its heart. About 304 pages in the Grand Central mass-market paperback.
The Notebook
Nights in Rodanthe
The Last Song
A Walk to Remember
The Rescue
The Choice
Message in a Bottle
The Lucky One
Landline
The Longest Ride
Evvie Drake Starts Over
Love the One You're With