Description: Can You Fall In Love With Someone You’ve Never Seen?
Alice and Alfie are strangers. But they sleep next to each other every night.
Alfie Mack has been in hospital for months recovering from an accident. A new face on the ward is about as exciting as life gets for him right now, so when someone moves into the bed next to him he’s eager to make friends. But it quickly becomes clear that seeing his neighbour’s face won’t happen any time soon.
Alice Gunnersley has been badly burned and can’t even look at herself yet, let alone allow anyone else to see her. She keeps the curtain around her bed firmly closed, but it doesn’t stop Alfie trying to get to know her. And gradually, as he slowly brings Alice out of her shell, might there even be potential for more?
https://www.waterstones.com/book/before-i-saw-you/emily-houghton/9781787633834
Why We Liked It
In Before I Saw You, Emily Houghton, has created a book that is impossible to put down, full of poignancy and emotion, but also humour and the gentle love of human kindness.
The characters that she has created have so much depth that you want to stay with them, to explore the detail of their stories, to want to find out what happens next.
Before I Saw You, is a moving and outstanding debut novel. Highly Recommended!