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Goodreads Synopsis
Award-winning romance writer Dani Atkins returns in this heart-breaking love story, in which a newly widowed father brings up his six-year-old son alone.
He'd have done everything differently if he'd known she'd be gone so soon...
When Lisa married Alex, she gave his life meaning. She was a professional astronomer: a stargazer. And when she gazed at Alex, she saw that behind his tough exterior was a man she could love.
Alex, Lisa and their young son Connor made a happy little universe. But then Lisa dies in a train crash, and their universe is destroyed. Alex is shattered by loss, and overwhelmed by the difficulties of being a single father to a six-year-old boy. How can he and Connor carry on without Lisa lighting up their lives?
Then Alex meets four strangers. Two men and two women, who never met Lisa, but whose lives changed profoundly because she died. As Alex hears their stories, he begins to realise the world may not be as cruel and senseless as it seems. Perhaps, after all, the future is written in the stars...
Review
I knew that this book was going to make me cry but I didn't realise how much it would! This book was beautiful and incredibly heart-breaking.
You know from the synopsis what's going to happen in the first few chapters but it honestly doesn't prepare you for Lisa's death. Alex then finds out Lisa had put herself down as an Organ donor and that four people's lives would be changed because of Lisa.
Told in the perspectives of Alex and Molly, one of the recipients, it was impossible not to grow attached to these characters along with the other side characters. They each had their own part to play and were unique in their own ways. I also thought it was so interesting to see how Atkin's dealt with the topic of young Connor losing his mother. I haven't read many books that deal with the loss of a parent at such a young age and Atkin's dealt with the topic with so much compassion.
This is a story about loss, love and grief which will have you needing to reach for the tissues. After devouring this book I know for a fact that I will be picking up more of Dani Atkin's books!
Rating: 4/5 stars
