![]() ![]() Our oldest, most fundamental place the place we really began. ![]() Most of us begin with the same kind of home: Where we come from. The thing is, though, that each of our homes, and the people who share them with us, shape us in ways it takes years to fully understand. But, unthinkable as it is to ourselves as children, what happens to all of us is that our definition of home changes over time. Just the phrase “keep the home fires burning” conjures a place we can return to after wandering, where someone we love will be waiting . On one hand, it’s such a universal concept that, in its broadest terms, it ought to mean the same thing to everyone-a place of shelter, safety, belonging. Home is one of those simple ideas that gets more complicated the harder you think about it. But what I soon began to realize, as the book developed, is that it’s equally a story about home. ![]() So that’s what was foremost in my mind when I started working on The One That Got Away. Darcy, is the story of Anne of Green Gables’ Anne Shirley and Gilbert Blythe. My lifelong favorite, over even Elizabeth Bennet and Mr. As an incurable romantic, I’ve always had a soft spot for those stories that are as warm and gooey as the center of a molten chocolate cake. ![]()
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