The First Time We Met by Jo LovettMy rating: 4 of 5 stars
Imagine meeting The One on his wedding day? Izzy is working Saturdays at a greasy spoon at Christmas, dodging the sexist comments and dishing out fried bread to all and sundry when she meets Sam. It's love at first sight, but when she plucks up the courage to ask him out she finds out that he is having a pre-wedding breakfast.
Sam and Izzy both move on but neither of them can ever quite forget that first meeting. Seven years later, by chance they run into each other. Izzy is heavily pregnant and they spend an innocent couple of hours in a café talking.
Fast forward another six years and things have changed. Izzy is separated from her husband Dominic, she has a six year old daughter Ruby and a thriving speech therapy practice. Sam's back living in New York with his thirteen year old twins Liv and Barney. After a terrible accident Liv has been physically injured but Barney has developed a debilitating stammer, something twelve separate speech therapists have been unable to help. In desperation, Sam reaches out to Izzy.
What follows is a cross-Atlantic, slow-burn romance, akin to You've Got Mail. Sam and Izzy email each other about Barney's progress and gradually share more and more of their personal lives, but how can they ever be more than just friends when their lives are thousands of miles apart?
I bought this on the strength of reading an ARC of a new book by Jo Lovett, then I was reluctant to start reading because, meeting the love of your life on their wedding day, sounded a bit icky. I had visions of Sam calling off the wedding, or some kind of Bridget Jones OTT behaviour. Of course it was nothing like that at all. It was a charming, thoughtful, grown-up romance and I loved it.
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