Little, Brown Book Group Ordinary Love (4, 2026) | Marie Rutkoski

'A SEXY SUMMER ROMANCE' DAILY MAIL 'A GRIPPING MODERN LOVE STORY' THE TIMES 'SOME OF THE BEST SEX SCENES I'VE READ THIS YEAR' GUARDIAN 'ONE FOR ROMANCE FANS EVERYWHERE' MARIE CLAIRE 'THIS SUMMER'S SMART BEACH READ' GRAZIA 'WILL BREAK YOU THEN PUT YOU BACK TOGETHER AGAIN' STYLIST 'UNBEARABLY BEAUTIFUL' EMILIA HART 'A SEXY PAGE TURNER' MADELEINE GRAY _________________________________________________________________________ There's no such thing as an ordinary love story When Emily catches sight of Gennifer Hall at a party, she is transported back to the moment they fell in love as teenagers. Their connection was electric, and they thought it was forever. Now Gen is an Olympic runner, the career she strived for, while Emily is living a picture-perfect life with her two young children and wealthy husband, Jack. But Jack's controlling behaviour is spiralling, and Emily has lost sight of who she once was. Despite everything keeping them apart, Emily and Gen still feel that magnetic attraction. After years of heartbreak, missed chances and misunderstandings, will they finally get a second chance at first love? _________________________________________________________________________ 'AN IMMERSIVE, GLAMOROUS, SEXY AND GRIPPING MODERN LOVE STORY TO GULP DOWN HUNGRILY AND QUICKLY' SUNDAY TIMES 'SLIPS DOWN AS EASILY AS OYSTERS AND CHAMPAGNE' DAILY MAIL 'A TENDER ROMANCE' WOMAN & HOME 'IMMERSIVE AND INSIGHTFUL' LISA OWENS, AUTHOR OF NOT WORKING AND NATURAL DISASTER 'AN EXQUISITELY TENDER PORTRAYAL OF ENDURING LOVE' OBSERVER 'A GORGEOUSLY WRITTEN LOVE STORY' GOOD HOUSEKEEPING 'HAD ME HOOKED FROM THE FIRST PAGE' JENNIE GODFREY, AUTHOR OF THE LIST OF SUSPICIOUS THINGS 'PROFOUNDLY MOVING' EMILY ST. JOHN MANDEL, AUTHOR OF STATION ELEVEN 'A MOVING, TENDER STORY ABOUT LOST LOVE AND SECOND CHANCES' RED 'I'M OBSESSED WITH THIS NOVEL. IT DEMANDS OBSESSION' HOLLY BRICKLEY, AUTHOR OF DEEP CUTS 'FUNNY AND MOVING AND SEXY' J. COURTNEY SULLIVAN, AUTHOR OF THE CLIFFS '[A] RAW, GORGEOUS DEBUT' THE I PAPER 'SHINING WITH RARE CLARITY' SAINSBURY'S MAGAZINE READERS ARE RAVING: 'So raw and so real . . . If there's one book you read this year, it should be this one' 'I absolutely devoured this . . . Clear your afternoon to read this one straight through' 'The characters were so real that I miss them now the book's over. This novel is one for the ages' 'Boy did this pack a punch, have a box of tissues by your side - you will need these' 'Sexy and sensual . . . I found myself not wanting to stop reading' 'So emotionally wrecked by this book [that I'm] still thinking about it obsessively months later' 'I fell in love with this story and these characters right from the beginning'