If Only Love by Shelley Saywell HARDBACK 9781039013711

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If Only LoveA memoir of second chances\nAuthor(s): Shelley Saywell\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Penguin Random House Group\nImprint: Random House Canada\nISBN-13: 9781039013711, 978-1039013711\nSynopsis\nIn 1973, a seventeen-year-old Canadian girl meets an American boy on her first day of school in Japan and falls in love, not realising that he is also a goner for her. When they finally connect, they only have two months together before school's out and she has to head home. Bad timing and swirling emotion botch their attempt to stay together and they fall out of touch. Long after she loses him, she still thinks of him, and even sets out on a journey to find him, one that fails in the most traumatic of ways. Thirty years later - after her award-winning documentary career has taken her to the most dangerous of places pursuing the toughest of stories - Daniel Peterson's name pops up in an email in Shelley Saywell's inbox, delivering them both a second chance at love. Soon they are ed.