Format: Kindle Edition
- File Size: 444 KB
- Print Length: 352 pages
- Publisher: Piatkus (6 Jun 2013)
- Sold by: Amazon Media EU S.à r.l.
- Language: English
- ASIN: B009M1QR64
Sophie McBride has been in love with Adam Templar for as long as she can remember. Talented, brilliant and sexy, he shines like the sun over the tiny Lakeland village where she's grown up. Now, at eighteen, she has her own big ideas and what's more, Adam is home from university and has finally noticed her . . . really noticed her. When he asks her to a party, she dares to hope that all her dreams can come true, but what happens that night sets off a chain of events that bring heartbreak for Sophie - and lead to Adam leaving Langmere under the darkest of clouds.
Ten years later, no one is more shocked than Sophie to find him back in the village. Now an up-and-coming film director, he's returned to make a drama about a notorious local poet and brought his glamorous cast, crew - and girlfriend - with him. As the on-screen drama plays out, can Sophie and Adam lay the past to rest or will history repeat itself?
We first meet Sophie McBride and Adam Templar when they are teenagers, Sophie studying for her A Levels and Adam at university in London. You read the chemistry between them, even if Adam – in true boy style is quite mean to her.
He invited her to a party as his house which is basically the local manor house as Adam’s family are very wealthy (a bone of contention between the two families who obviously have a long running feud).
Sophie slips out anyway under the ruse of sleeping at a friend’s, being caught by her sneaky younger brother, Nathan, in the process.
Events at the party take a horrible and dramatic turn, leading to disastrous consequences - leaving nothing in Sophie’s life the same again.
Fast forward ten years and Adam returns to Langmere as a director of a hotshot movie production team who are making a film about the obscure Lakeland poet William Trevelyan who was from the area. He brings with him a host of impressive actors, none more so than the womanising Harry Lennox who instantly sets local girls pulses racing, including Sophie’s best friend and business partner Lily Bernetti.
Sophie and Adam’s paths inevitably cross in such a small town and ten years of lost love, secrets and hurt take their toll on everyone.
There were twists and turns in the book leaving you shouting at the pages, but the ending was lovely and well thought out.
It Happened One Nightillustrated small town life perfectly, the past is very rarely forgotten and everybody seems to have opinions on events.
All the characters are extremely 'real' and I especially loved the character of Sophie and rooted for her to find happiness from the outset. I also liked Harry Lennox who for me had a very Russell Brand-esque persona.
I think this would be a perfect summer holiday read! I give it a well deserved 4*!
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