A Love Like This

Donna and Will are born in the same Dublin hospital, and for years their paths keep brushing against each other. In childhood, in their teens and as young adults, they come close to meeting, and each time they miss.

Will grows up under the weight of what his overbearing mother expects of him. Donna is raised by her older sister, and she wonders what her life would be like if her troubled mother were not part of it.

Tragedy reaches each of them in turn. Each leaves Ireland to start again, and they end up on opposite sides of the world. Then, on a sunny day in a café in Auckland, they meet at last.

The happiness they find there turns out to be fragile. Disaster separates them a second time, and each is left with a memory of what they had and thoughts of what might have been.

This is a contemporary love story told across decades, built on the long wait before the lovers meet. It follows two ordinary lives from the same starting point, with family strain and loss shaping both. Expect an emotional read with sadness running through it, and a romance that is tested as soon as it begins.