num_pages: 432
description: In her eagerly awaited new novel beloved New York Times bestselling author Emily Giffin returns with an extraordinary story of love and loyaltyand an unconventional heroine struggling to reconcile both. Thirty-three-year-old Shea Rigsby has spent her entire life in Walker Texasa small college town that lives and dies by football a passion she unabashedly shares. Raised alongside her best friend Lucy the daughter of Walkers legendary head coach Clive Carr Shea was too devoted to her hometown team to leave. Instead she stayed in Walker for college even taking a job in the university athletic department after graduation where she has remained for more than a decade. But when an unexpected tragedy strikes the tight-knit Walker community Sheas comfortable world is upended and she begins to wonder if the life shes chosen is really enough for her. As she finally gives up her safety net to set out on an unexpected path Shea discovers unsettling truths about the people and things she has always trusted mostand is forced to confront her deepest desires fears and secrets. Thoughtful funny and brilliantly observed The One &amp; Only is a luminous novel about finding your passion following your heart and most of all believing in something bigger than yourself . . . the one and only thing that truly makes life worth living.
language: English
title: The One & Only
publisher: Ballantine Books