Eight Perfect Hours
A Novel
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Emma Powell
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Written by:
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Lia Louis
About this listen
One of the Best Feel-Good Books of 2021 by the Washington Post
“I read Eight Perfect Hours in one sitting, in four perfect hours, because I couldn’t bear to put it down without knowing the ending.” (Jodi Picoult, number one New York Times best-selling author)
In this romantic and heartwarming novel, two strangers meet in chance circumstances during a blizzard and spend one perfect evening together, thinking they’ll never see each other again. But fate seems to have different plans. From the acclaimed author of the “swoon-worthy…rom-com” (The Washington Post) Dear Emmie Blue.
On a snowy evening in March, 30-something Noelle Butterby is on her way back from an event at her old college when disaster strikes. With a blizzard closing off roads, she finds herself stranded, alone in her car, without food, drink, or a working charger for her phone.
All seems lost until Sam Attwood, a handsome American stranger also trapped in a nearby car, knocks on her window and offers assistance. What follows is eight perfect hours together, until morning arrives and the roads finally clear. The two strangers part, positive they’ll never see each other again but fate, it seems, has a different plan. As the two keep serendipitously bumping into one another, they begin to realize that perhaps there truly is no such thing as coincidence.
With plenty of charming twists and turns and Lia Louis’s “bold, standout voice” (Gillian McAllister, author of The Good Sister), Eight Perfect Hours is a gorgeously crafted novel that will make you believe in the power of fate.
©2021 Lia Louis. All rights reserved. (P)2021 Orion Publishing Group. All rights reserved.You may also enjoy...
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- Anonymous User
- 2022-02-22
alright
the story was light, easy to get through, but at times very surface level and it really relied on its "fate" trope. i liked the narrator, emma powell, enough, but her american accent for the love interest is very awful.
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- Anonymous User
- 2023-01-14
Amazing narration for a light romance
Loved the narration and the story. I really felt for the characters and loved how the universe kept moving them together.
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- Anonymous User
- 2023-07-28
nope
this book is bad enough that I am bothering to leave this review.
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