How to Walk Away

Maggie Jacobsen is just about to step into the bright future she's worked so hard and so long for: a new dream job, a fiancé she adores and the promise of a picture-perfect life just around the corner. Then, suddenly, on what should have been one of the happiest days of her life, everything she worked for is taken away in a brief, tumultuous moment.

In the hospital and forced to face the possibility that nothing will ever be the same again, Maggie must confront the unthinkable. First there is her fiancé, who wallows in self-pity while simultaneously expecting to be forgiven. Then there's her sister Kit, who shows up after pulling a three-year vanishing act. Finally there's Ian, her physical therapist, the one the nurses said was too tough for her. Ian, who won't let her give in to her pity, and who sees her like no one has seen her before. Sometimes the last thing you want is the one thing you need. Sometimes we all need someone to catch us when we fall. And sometimes love can find us in the least likely place we would ever expect.

How to Walk Away is a masterpiece of a novel that is both hopeful and hilarious, truthful and wise, tender and brave.

'If you read just one book this year, read How to Walk Away'
Nina George, author of The Little Paris Bookshop