A Love Like This

Author: Maria Duffy

Number of Pages: 368

William and Donna are both born in Dublin on the same day, in the same maternity hospital, but there the similarities end. William’s mother is a driven solicitor who wants her son to follow in her footsteps; Donna’s single mum, Janice, struggles to get through the day. It would seem that their paths in life are set. But destiny has other ideas. Will knows that he has to set himself free from the weight of his parents’ expectations, and Donna understands that her flair for creating delicious cakes is the key to a new and better life. Both on their separate paths, they find themselves travelling far from home in search of freedom and a new life. And then, one day, Donna is flicking through brochures in a tourist office in New Zealand, and in walks Will. Their meeting lasts five minutes, but there’s something there, both of them know it. And then disaster strikes… perhaps some things are just not meant to happen… Back in Dublin, Donna settles for the lovely Bob, whom she loves, but she doesn’t have those butterflies. And then she and Bob go for dinner with Bob’s long-lost cousin and his fiancee, Tara. Donna walks into the restaurant and her heart stops, because sitting at the table, waiting, is Will…