Tracey Hooker's book is both heartwarming and heartbreaking. Her character's self-aware love dilemma comes through in sincere longing and in earnest conversations. Tracey's prose brings alive the culture of the book's era with clever music and fashion references along with events of that day. The trajectory of simmering love intensifying on the one hand and dying on the other are mixed ingeniously so the reader feels the tug and pull inherent in each interaction. Marvelously written, this love story grabs the reader start to finish, leaving an impression of how roughly life can treat us, but not without a few moments of joy along the way. Highly recommended!