Láska a jiná slova – Laurenová Christina (2022)

Macy Sorensen leads a calm but emotionally flat life that gives her a sense of security. She is thriving as an ambitious pediatric resident at a local hospital, and her relationship with an older, financially secure, well-known artist seems equally satisfactory. They are planning their wedding, and Macy’s carefully built and guarded bubble appears to lack nothing—until she encounters Elliot Petropoulos again after many years. He was her first and only true love: a lanky, passionate reader who welcomed her into his world and helped her through the difficult period after her mother’s death, only for Macy to break up with him without explanation on the very evening he declared his love for her. Alternating between the past and present, the novel reveals how Macy and Elliot met, became best friends during weekends and summers at her father’s country house, and later became lovers who shared a love of words. It also follows their difficult attempt to find their way back to each other after years of estrangement. As they gradually grow closer, memories of their happy adolescence are clouded by their unexplained breakup and a painful secret Macy would rather forget. Neither knows whether they can bridge ten years of silence and rekindle their former love.