Absolutely and Forever

<p><b>¿Gorgeous¿ <i>Observer * </i>¿Profoundly moving¿ <i>Financial Times * </i>¿Electrifying¿ <i>Daily Mail</i></b><br><br><b>How do you find the courage to make your own life? An electrifying novel about first love set in 1960s London from the bestselling Rose Tremain</b><br><br>Marianne is fifteen when she falls helplessly and absolutely in love with Simon. Simon owns a Morris Minor, is in his final year at school and has a dazzling future ahead of him. Desperate to escape the stifling 1950s suburbs she has been raised in, Marianne feels sure she will be able to find true happiness with him.<br><br>However a twist of fate sees Simon¿s glittering future dashed and with it Marianne¿s dreams. He flees the country and Marianne, realising she will now have to make a life of her own, moves to London determined to reinvent herself. But Marianne cannot let go of that first all-encompassing love and all the while Simon is in Paris, nursing a secret that will alter everything.<br><br><b>¿A pe