What if you met The One on his wedding day?
Izzy doesn’t believe in love at first sight, but when Sam walks into the cafe where she works one winter’s morning, she knows without a doubt that he’s the one. Too bad Sam’s getting married. Today.
Nearly a year later, Izzy still can’t stop thinking about Sam, the one that got away, but she knows it’s time to move on: he’s a married man and probably wouldn’t recognise her if he passed her on the street.
But Sam has never forgotten Izzy, the funny, gorgeous woman who asked him out on his wedding day. If the timing had only been better, he knows they could have had something wonderful.
When Izzy and Sam’s paths finally cross again, everything has changed. But with the Atlantic Ocean and decades of baggage between them, they are about to find out whether some obstacles are too big for even true love to overcome.
Do you believe in love at first sight? Jo Lovett explores this loved trope in The First Time We Met. The premise and the beginning of the story showed so much promise. But the large time jumps are problematic and not realistic or believable. Fourteen years is far too long to harbour any sort of interest in someone that you've only had a few encounters with. (The timeline needs tightening up, where is an editor when you need one?) There was also an unnecessary subplot that ate up pages and made the story drag on.
JO LOVETT worked in corporate tax before taking an extended break to have five children. She started writing rom coms and was runner-up in the Good Housekeeping/ Orion First Novel Competition 2018 and shortlisted for the Comedy Women in Print Award 2019.
Lovett lives in London with her family.
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