This was an emotional one!
This is a love story with a twist. T.J Callahan is a 16year old boy in remission from cancer, his parents hire 30year old Anna Emerson to tutor T.J during a summer break in the Maldives.
Tragedy strikes on their flight to join T.J's family when the pilot suffers from a fatal heart attack.
T.J and Anna are left to find a way to survive in the hope of eventually being found after managing to get to a uninhabited island. They battle against hunger, the thirst, illness and the elements but eventually Anna realises her biggest battle is living with a boy who is turning into a man before her eyes....
I was a train wreck reading this book, literally I had tears streaming for about 75% of this book! The author has done an amazing job of making the characters realistic. Despite the age gap of the characters there is nothing inappropriate in the book. The romance develops slowly, which I really liked about this book and it isn't totally obvious. The author goes in to extraordinary depth, the descriptions of the island is beautiful and you really can picture it in your mind. When the characters are eventually brought back to the 'real world' you really do feel their plight in defending and defining their relationship to others.
This is a book I will treasure, I will read again and again and probably cry just as much! A beautiful love story with an amazing twist.
On the Island is available in both ebook format and as a paperback from Amazon.co.uk
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