In her twenties, Emma Blair marries her high school sweetheart, Jesse. Goodreads Synopsis: From the author of Maybe in Another Life-named a People Magazine pick and a “Best Book of the Summer” by Glamour and USA Today-comes a breathtaking new love story about a woman unexpectedly forced to choose between the husband she has long thought dead and the fiancé who has finally brought her back to life.

Published by Washington Square Press on June 7th 2016 Soo conveys the range of these feelings beautifully, even if the story is relentless in giving Emma reasons and occasions to grieve, only rarely allowing her to show her funnier, sunnier side.Also by this author: Daisy Jones & The Six, Carrie Soto Is Back

Denial, sadness, desperation, going through the motions and surviving if not truly living. The major undercurrent of Emma's story is the non-linear nature of grief, and the different ways it can manifest over the years. Where One True Loves really shines is in tackling its heaviest themes. But where Daisy Jones lost some of its heart, and the deeper themes of what made the story work in the name of TV series dramatics, One True Loves stays consistently true throughout to both its central thesis, and to the different journeys Emma, Sam and Jesse are on, likely owing to Jenkins Reid penning the screenplay herself alongside her husband Alex Jenkins Reid. It's been a banner year for author Taylor Jenkins Reid, who wrote the book on which One True Loves is based, as this year also saw her bestselling novel Daisy Jones & The Six get a Prime Video series adaptation.

His body isn't recovered, but eventually the search is called off and he's declared dead. Tragedy strikes on their first anniversary, however, when Jesse heads out to Alaska for a project, and his helicopter crashes. The two spend years travelling, going from one exotic locale to the next, and eventually tie the knot. Caught between two hunks who love you? We should all have such problems.īored with life in their small, Hallmark-esque town, teenage Emma falls hard for Jesse, who has aspirations to get out and see the world, and eventually he does, with Emma along for the ride. But what happens when lightning strikes more than once, and life forces you to choose between them? This is the question at the center of director Andy Fickman's One True Loves, which stars Phillipa Soo as Emma, a young woman forced to make this exact decision after her presumed-dead husband Jesse ( Luke Bracey) returns home to find her engaged to her childhood best friend Sam ( Simu Liu). Many of us would consider ourselves lucky if we found one great love in our lifetime.

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