![]() Decades later, after Allison develops Alzheimer's, her beau uses "the notebook" to read her the story of the great love she's plumb forgot. Respectability (to whom she happens to be engaged), or will she hook up with Noah, the romantic rascal she left so many years ago? We're not telling, but you have two guesses and the first one doesn't count. The Notebook, a Southern-fried story of love-lost-and-found-again, revolves around a single time-honored romantic dilemma: will beautiful Allison Nelson stay with Mr. "Somewhere," muses Noah Calhoun, while sitting on his porch in the moonight, "there were people making love." Anyway, head elsewhere for Great Literature, but if you're in the market to get your heartstrings plucked, look no further. This text refers to an alternate kindle_edition edition. With the memories of Noah and Allie's inspiring life together as his guide, he vows to make his wife fall in love with him. ![]() He will do anything he can to save his marriage. With his daughter about to marry, and his wife thinking about leaving him, Wilson knows it is time to act. His wife, Jane, has fallen out of love with him.ĭespite the shining example of his in-laws, Noah and Allie Calhoun, and their fifty-year love affair, Wilson is unable to express his true feelings. Though so much is in their way, the miraculous force of their love refuses to fade.Īfter thirty years of marriage, Wilson is forced to face a painful truth. When these distant memories begin to slide into reality, the passion that had lain still is ignited once more. Allie Nelson is about to marry into wealth and security, but she cannot stop thinking about the boy who stole her heart long ago. Praise for Nicholas Sparks: 'A fiercely romantic and touching tale' Heat 'An A-grade romantic read' OK! 'Pulls at the heartstrings' Sunday Times 'An absorbing page-turner' Daily Mail 'This one won't leave a dry eye' Daily MirrorĪt thirty-one, Noah Calhoun is rebuilding his life after the horrors of World War II, but he is haunted by images of the girl he lost more than a decade earlier. The Notebook is the love story to end all love stories - it will break your heart, heal it back up and break it all over again. ![]() Only this time, it's not just her parents in the way - Allie is engaged and she's not a woman to go back on her promises. When Allie Hamilton shows up on his doorstep, exactly as he has held her in his memory for all these years, Noah has one last chance to win her back. A girl who stole his heart at the funfair, whose parents didn't approve, a girl he wrote to every day for a year. But he is haunted by memories of the beautiful girl he met there years before. Noah Calhoun has returned from war and, in an attempt to escape the ghosts of battle, he sets his mind and his body to restoring an old plantation home to its former beauty. * Once again, just as I do every day, I begin to read the notebook aloud. Celebrating 25 years of The Notebook - the classic novel which became the heart-wrenching film.
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