A Canterbury Romance : the only thing I think about here is you - Gemma O'Dell

A Canterbury Romance : the only thing I think about here is you - Gemma O'Dell

Gemma O'Dell

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  • Pages · 288 pages
  • Publication Date · 10/09/2026
  • Genre · Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
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Una O'Connell is rebuilding her life one small act ofrediscovery at a time. She isn't looking for love. Then a chance encounter witha stranger in Canterbury Cathedral changes the course of her day, and perhapsher life. Ned is kind, intelligent, and impossible to forget. Theirconnection is immediate, the rare kind that needs no explaining, because theyboth feel it the same way, in the same instant. When chance keeps bringing themback together, neither can quite bring themselves to walk away. But Una is newly separated, newly pregnant, and only justlearning who she is without the life she'd built around someone else. Thesensible thing would be to let him go. The problem is that Ned makes her feelmore alive than sensible ever did. Warm, funny, and deeply moving, `A Canterbury Romance' is astory about second chances, about redefining what family and home mean, andabout finding the courage to embrace a future entirely different from the oneyou planned. Because, given the chance, there are people ahead who can beas important as any we leave behind.

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