BOOK TOUR STOP x Random Things Tours - 12 Hours to Say I Love You by Olivia Poulet & Laurence Dobiesz

Genre: Adult Fiction | Romance

Release Date: 3rd February 2022

Publisher: Headline | Headline Review

Two people. One love story. Twelve hours to tell it...

Steve doesn't know what Pippa was doing when she got into the traffic accident that led to tonight. As his wife lies unconscious in the hospital, all he can hear is the beeping and clicking of the machines keeping her alive. Sitting by her side, he tells her all the reasons he loves her, all the reasons he needs her to come back and just praying she can hear him.

Pippa might not be able to hear him, but somewhere in her mind, fragments of memories start to play. She remembers meeting a stranger who slowly became her friend, her partner and the love of her life. She remembers getting in her car earlier that night … and that's it.

Can she find her way back to him?

"The past is a foreign land, Pippa. The future is an unknown quantity. All we have is now. This."

A beautiful, moving love story - poignant and so very real. As we trace a path back to the very start of their relationship - from uncertainty to infatuation to true love and everything in between. As we go over highs and lows, 12 hours to say I love you explores the beautiful, messy chaos that is falling in and staying in love.

Told through snapshots, little pockets of time that mark the key points in their story from both perspectives. The connection between them was so real that my heart broke for them with every page, and it felt as thought we've lived through their relationship alongside them.

A truly heartbreakingly stunning story about love and loss, fans of If I Stay by Gayle Foreman will definitely love this story.

"You're not going anywhere, Pippa. It's not time. This can't be the end of our story. I've got so many more chapters planned."

⭐⭐⭐⭐

Thank you to Anne at Random Things Tours and Headline for inviting me to take part in this tour. I was gifted a reviewers copy of this title in return for an honest review.

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