Almost Life

People Best Sapphic Historical Romances Harpers Bazaar Most Anticipated Books Coming Out This Spring Autostraddle Most Anticipated Queer Books for March 2026 Time New Books You Should Read in March Hargrave has a great eye and ear for close-focus, intimate scenes. Conversations, sexual encounters, and meals are vividly alive... Laure and Erica are richly drawn, in both heart and mind. The New York Times Two young women meet in Paris one sultry summer in a decades-spanning tour de force about the enduring power of young love and the poignant heartbreak of missed chancesperfect for fans of One Day and Normal People. Erica and Laure meet on the steps of the Sacr-Coeur in Paris, 1978. Erica is a student, relishing her first summer abroad before beginning university at home in England. Laure is studying for her PhD at the Sorbonne, drinking and smoking far too much, and sleeping with a married woman. The moment the two women meet, the spark is undeniable, but their encounter turns into far more than a summer of love. It is the beginning of a relationship that will define their lives and every decision they have yet to make Erica and Laures love story spans decades, marriage, children, secret trysts, and the agonizing changesboth personal and politicalthat might mean they can be together, after all. But when life brings them within touching distance again, will they be brave enough to seize a future together? Beautifully capturing young love and all its complexities, Almost Life is a story of longing for the paths not taken, and the almost lives we live.

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