Pages:
369
Publisher:
Definitions
(Random House)
Release
Date: 10th
January 2012
Edition:
UK paperback,
purchased copy
A
whirlwind day in Paris...
A
chance at true love...
Heartbreak
is waiting just around the corner.
From
the author of the international bestseller, If I Stay, comes
a poignant and beautiful story of love, loss and learning to live again.
If
I Stay and Where She Went captured my heart with
Gayle Forman’s beautiful prose and heartbreaking story of love and loss and Just One Day had exactly the same
effect.
One of the most unexpected – in
the best way – things about Just One Day was
the prominence of Shakespeare in the novel. I’ve studied his plays in school
since I can remember but I’ve not yet seen one live and the performance of Twelfth Night put on by Guerilla Will is
something I’d kill to see, especially in Stratford-upon-Avon! Forman kept the
themes and ideas of Shakespeare relevant to so much in the novel and was the
perfect thing to run alongside Allyson’s journey.
Just
One Day takes
a few philosophical and thoughtful turns as “LuLu” and Willem muse on the
nature of love and release of travelling and Allyson reacts to loss and doubt. I
found it incredible that a single day with a stranger in Paris could have such
a large and lasting impact. It left a permanent mark on her opened her up to so
many new ideas and experiences that she otherwise would have stayed ignorant
of.
This novel gave me serious
wanderlust. I haven’t been to many places but I’ve always dreamt of seeing the
world and Allyson went to more places in a single year than I’ve been to in my
entire life: Paris, Holland, Amsterdam, New York, Miami, Mexico and that’s not
including the European tour she went on before the novel started! I want to go
somewhere new and exciting so badly. The possibilities, the opportunities, the
people...
Once again, I’ve written a
pretty vague review but I really don’t want to spoil a single word of this romantic,
thoughtful and intensely involving novel.
Sophie
I have been wanting to read this since I did like Gayle Forman's previous books. I am tempted to get it!
ReplyDeleteI've not read any of Gayle Forman's novels but I have heard such great things about them all! This one is one that I seems realyl grand as well. Reviews that don't give much away? Totally more interesting then the ones with too much description!
ReplyDeleteThanks for sharing this great review Sophie, I may have to grab a hold of this book as soon as I can! :D