Another heartwarming romantic comedy from the winner of the RNA Romantic Comedy Novel Award 2025.
When Genevieve Fletcher is commissioned to ghostwrite a billionaire's autobiography for a ridiculously large sum, she tells herself it's just business. But when she arrives at his mansion on the edge of the Yorkshire Dales, she doesn't expect to meet Sam Ingram, the man who broke her heart 30 years earlier.
Now they're living under the same roof, and he wants her to tell his story. But what is Sam hoping she'll finally understand about him and what happened all those years ago?
The first chapter of this book won the Romantic Novelists' Association Elizabeth Goudge Trophy 2026.
Thirty Years Later is the first in a new series of rom coms set in the picturesque fictional Yorkshire village of Larkthwaite.
Tropes and themes
When Genevieve Fletcher is commissioned to ghostwrite a billionaire's autobiography for a ridiculously large sum, she tells herself it's just business. But when she arrives at his mansion on the edge of the Yorkshire Dales, she doesn't expect to meet Sam Ingram, the man who broke her heart 30 years earlier.
Now they're living under the same roof, and he wants her to tell his story. But what is Sam hoping she'll finally understand about him and what happened all those years ago?
The first chapter of this book won the Romantic Novelists' Association Elizabeth Goudge Trophy 2026.
Thirty Years Later is the first in a new series of rom coms set in the picturesque fictional Yorkshire village of Larkthwaite.
Tropes and themes
- Later in life romance
Second chance romance
The one that got away
Forced proximity
Genre: Romance