PS I Love You by Cecelia Ahern

Synopsis (from back page)

Childhood sweethearts, they could finish each other’s sentences and even when they fought, they laughed. No one could imagine Holly and Gerry without each other.

Until the unthinkable happens. Gerry’s death devastates Holly. But as her 30th birthday looms, Gerry comes back to her. He’s left her a bundle of notes, gently guiding Holly into her new life without him, each note signed ‘PS, I love you’.

As the notes are gradually opened, and as the year unfolds, Holly is both cheered up and challenged. The man who knows her better than anyone sets out to teach her that life goes on. With some help from her friends, and her noisy and loving family, Holly finds herself laughing, crying, singing, dancing – and being braver than ever before.

Life is for living, she realises – but it always helps if there’s an angel watching over you.

Review

PS I Love You has a very unique storyline and although in a way it’s a very simply written book it has the ability to grab you by the heartstrings and pull you in to what turns out to be one hell of a roller coaster ride of emotion.

The premise of the book, that being of a young woman coming to terms with the loss of her husband, could potentially have been rather hard to pull off however Ahern does it extremely well particularly as this is her first novel but you can’t fault her for the powerful emotion she manages to convey.

All of the characters, including that of the main character Holly, are ones that you can’t help but fall in love with and whether you’re laughing out loud at the friends drunken antics during Holly’s birthday night out or whether you have tears streaming down your face at witnessing Holly struggle to cope during her more private moments alone, this book is guaranteed to make you keep turning the pages – a definite page-turner if ever there was one.

This was actually a reread for me but I can quite honestly say that I enjoyed it just as much second time around as I did the first time.

Reviewed by Karen.