Rosie Dunne and Alex Stewart have been inseparable since they were five years old, two best friends who understand each other better than anyone else ever will. As teenagers they seem destined for something more, but on the night that might have changed everything, a small misunderstanding sends their lives spinning in different directions. Alex's family moves to America, and what should have been a simple love story becomes a decades-long comedy of timing, distance, and near misses.
Over the years, careers, marriages, children, divorces, and an ocean keep pulling Rosie and Alex apart just as they seem about to find their way to each other. Told entirely through their letters, emails, instant messages, and hastily scrawled notes, the novel follows the two friends from childhood into middle age, capturing the ache and the humor of a love that everyone but the two of them can see.
Originally published as Where Rainbows End and later filmed as Love, Rosie, Cecelia Ahern's epistolary romance is a warm, funny, and bittersweet story about friendship, missed chances, and the stubborn hope that the right person is worth waiting a lifetime for.