num_pages: 244
description: Two former lovers reconnect in this beautiful and haunting tale of great lost love from the critically acclaimed author of The Headmaster's Wife.Twenty-one years after they were driven apart by circumstances beyond their control two former lovers have a chance encounter on a Manhattan street. What follows is a tense suspenseful exploration of the many facets of enduring love. Told from altering points of view through time If I Forget You tells the story of Henry Gold a poet whose rise from poverty embodies the American dream and Margot Fuller the daughter of a prominent wealthy family and their unlikely star-crossed love affair complete with the secrets they carry when they find each other for the second time.Written in lyrical prose If I Forget You is at once a great love story a novel of marriage manners and family a meditation on the nature of art a moving elegy to what it means to love and to lose and how the choices we make can change our lives forever.
language: English
title: If I Forget You
publisher: Thomas Dunne Books