The gap between last reading this book and now is roughly 4 years and although I knew the story, I was surprised to find that not absolutely everything had stayed in my memory. work together to obtain water, food, fire and shelter. Marooned on an uninhabited island, Anna and T.J. are en route to join T.J.'s family in the Maldives when the pilot of their seaplane suffers a fatal heart attack and crash lands in the Indian ocean. is almost seventeen and as if having had cancer wasn't bad enough, he now has to spend his first summer in remission with his family- and a pile of overdue essays - instead of his friends.Īnna and T.J. Callahan at his families holiday home in the Maldives, she accepts without hesitation. When thirty-year-old English teacher Anna Emerson is offered a summer job tutoring T.J. Wanting to start the year off with a positive, and very pleased to have been given my own copy for Christmas, I returned to a book that holds a special place in my heart. This book is brilliant and holds a place with only one other on my number 1 spot for all books I love. And It's not only me who would quite happily open up the first page and start reading again because family have said it and wider reviews too. I couldn't tell you the combination of literary ingredients it takes to make a fantastic book that I could happily read again tomorrow (even after just having read it for the fourth time) because only Tracey Garvis Graves has the recipe. Note: Spoilers pre-warned towards the end
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