The Forever Girl
A heartwarming, and heartbreaking, multi-generational novel from the bestselling author Alexander McCall Smith--a tale of unrequited love, and the unexpected places it takes us.
This love story begins on a small Caribbean island, Grand Cayman, with 2 people who meet as children, and over 20 years and 4 continents will fall in love. At age 6 Clover falls in love, although she doesn't know it as such until years later, with her best friend, James. He doesn't seem to reciprocate her feelings, but he does enjoy being her friend. She and James happily spend all their time together--until the year that their game of "spy" inadvertently catches her mother and his father in a clandestine conversation. While Clover and James…