A poignant tale of first love
Every April, when the wind blows in from the sea and mingles with the scent of lilacs, Landon Carter remembers his seventeenth year - his last year at Beaufort High.
It was 1958 and Landon had already had a couple of girlfriends. He even swore that he'd once been in love. Certainly the last person in town he thought he'd fall for was Jamie Sullivan, the daughter of the town's Baptist minister.
A quiet girl who always carried a Bible with her schoolbooks, Jamie seemed content living in a world apart from other teenagers - she took care of her widowed father, rescued hurt animals and helped out at the local orphanage. No boy had ever asked her out. And Landon would never have dreamed of it, until a twist of fate made Jamie his partner for the all-important Homecoming Dance, and Landon Carter's life would never be the same again.
Being with Jamie would show him the depths of the human heart and lead him to a decision so stunning it would set him irrevocably on the road to adulthood.
No other author can touch our emotions quite as deeply as Nicholas Sparks, and his two bestsellers, 'The Notebook' and 'Message In A Bottle', have established him as the leading author of today's most cherished love stories. Now, in 'A Walk To Remember', he tells a truly unforgettable story, reminding us that in life each of us may find one great love, the kind that changes everything . . .
