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Slow Dance

(2024)
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Lose yourself in the tender, sexy, utterly real second chance love story, which shows love in all its complexity - chosen as a Reese's Book Club Pick and an instant New York Times bestseller...


PRAISE FOR RAINBOW ROWELL AND SLOW DANCE

'SEXY, SWEET, WISE AND NOSTALGIC' Gabrielle Zevin

'A BEAUTIFUL, BELIEVABLE LOVE STORY' Marian Keyes

'CRACKING, LAUGH-OUT-LOUD DIALOGUE AND CHARACTERS THAT FEEL PAINFULLY REAL' Jodi Picoult

'ROWELL'S HUMOUR, TENDERNESS AND SENSE OF DETAIL ARE EXTRAORDINARY' Curtis Sittenfeld

'SHE WILL BREAK YOUR HEART AND YOU'LL THANK HER FOR IT' Leigh Bardugo

'A BOOK THAT IS ROMANTIC TO ITS CORE, AS FUNNY AND SMART AS ITS CHARACTERS' Emma Straub

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Back in high school, everybody thought Shiloh and Cary would end up together – everybody but Shiloh and Cary.

They were best friends, that’s all.

But, somehow, everything changed. Both left town – took different paths – and suddenly it’s fourteen years since Shiloh last spoke to Cary.

She’s been married, divorced, and is back living in the house she grew up in. But when she gets invited to an old friend’s wedding, all Shiloh can think about is whether Cary will be there – and whether she’s dreading or dreaming if he will be . . .

Slow Dance is the story of two kids who fell in love before they knew enough about love to recognize it. And what will happen when they try to make their way back to each other.

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EVERYONE LOVES SLOW DANCE:

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A will-they, won't-they second chance romance for the ages' People

Raw, real and romantic, this one got me right in the feelsRed

'I can't even put into words what this book means to me' Reader review
Who can deny the absolute, dizzy pleasure of loving a novel so much . . . A book that is romantic to its core, and as funny and smart as its wonderful characters' Emma Straub

'No author makes me root for characters like Rainbow Rowell does' Reader review

Rainbow Rowell has an incredible ability to hide an emotional wallop in the middle of a light and romantic storyCosmopolitan

'This is the type of book that makes you fall in love with real life' Reader review



Genre: Romance

Praise for this book

"Deeply human, profoundly romantic. Rowell tackles the challenges of love lost and rediscovered with nuance and candor. She will break your heart and you'll thank her for it." - Leigh Bardugo

"Who can deny the absolute, dizzy pleasure of loving a novel so much that you cannot bear to put it down, that you want to do nothing but keep flipping pages, that you want to immerse yourself fully and not come up for air until you are finished. I read Slow Dance in just that way, breathless and weeping. There is no one better than Rainbow at creating flawed, deeply human people. I loved every page of Slow Dance, a book that is romantic to its core, and as funny and smart as its wonderful characters." - Emma Straub

"If you, like me, think thirty-somethings methodically working through their issues is very hot, Slow Dance is the book for you. The people in it feel like people you know or may even people you've been. Slow Dance is sexy, sweet, wise, and nostalgic - Jane Austen's Persuasion for our times." - Gabrielle Zevin


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