‘If ever a couple was ‘meant to be,’ it’s Tess and Gus. This is such a witty, poignant, and uplifting story of two lives crisscrossing over time, with near miss after near miss . . I couldn’t put it down.’-Sophie Kinsella

A wryly intimate debut book with echoes of One Day that asks, what if you just walked by the appreciate of your life, but didn’t even understand it?

‘TODAY MAY BE THE Initial DAY OF THE REST OF YOUR LIFE.’ Tess can’t get the motto from her mother’s kitchen knickknack out of her mind, about Miss You: A Book despite the fact that she’s in Florence with an idyllic vacation before starting college or university in London.

Gus is also going to Florence, on any occasion with his parents seven months after tragedy shattered their lives. Going to medical school in London, he’s attempting to be always a dutiful son but longs to escape and discover who he is really.

A chance meeting brings these eighteen-year-olds jointly for a short moment-the first of many times their pathways will crisscross after a while and their lives diverge from those they’d envisioned. Over the course of the next sixteen years, Tess and Gus will encounter very different issues and options. Separated by length and circumstance, the chance of the two connecting once again seems slight.

But while fate can separate two different people, additionally, it may bring them back together again. . . .