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After I Do

By: Taylor Jenkins Reid
Narrated by: Julia Whelan
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 From the New York Times bestselling author of The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo, comes a breath taking novel about modern marriage, the depth of family ties, and the year that one remarkable heroine spends exploring both.

When Lauren and Ryan's marriage reaches the breaking point, they come up with an unconventional plan. They decide to take a year off in the hopes of finding a way to fall in love again. One year apart, and only one rule: they cannot contact each other. Aside from that, anything goes.

Lauren embarks on a journey of self-discovery, quickly finding that her friends and family have their own ideas about the meaning of marriage. These influences, as well as her own healing process and the challenges of living apart from Ryan, begin to change Lauren's ideas about monogamy and marriage. She starts to question: When you can have romance without loyalty and commitment without marriage, when love and lust are no longer tied together, what do you value? What are you willing to fight for?

This is a love story about what happens when the love fades. It's about staying in love, seizing love, forsaking love, and committing to love with everything you've got. And above all, After I Do is the story of a couple caught up in an old game-and searching for a new road to happily ever after.
 Contemporary Contemporary Romance Family Life Fiction Genre Fiction Literary Fiction Romance Women's Fiction Marriage

Critic reviews

Praise for Taylor Jenkins Reid

‘Spellbinding’ Emily Giffin

‘Full of raw human emotion’ Beth O’Leary

‘An entirely fresh and new perspective on what can happen after the "happily ever after”’ Jen Lancaster

‘The very best of Classic Hollywood intrigue, a delicious twist and incisive commentary on the wages of stardom’ Anne Helen Petersen

‘I can't remember the last time I read a book that was so fun’ Dolly Alderton

‘The characters were beautifully layered and complex... captured my heart’ Reese Witherspoon

‘Everyone should read this’ Claudia Winkleman

‘Dramatic, salacious and oh-so-romantic’ Woman & Home

‘Wildy addictive’ PopSugar

‘Glamour, ambition and shocking secrets’ People

‘Earth-shaking… you will flip for this epic love story’ Cosmopolitan

‘Heartwrenching’ Us Weekly

‘Reid masterfully grabs hold of the heartstrings and doesn't let go’ Publishers Weekly

‘No one does life and love better’ InStyle
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I enjoy these books. This one (for me) isn’t as strong as Seven Husbands or Daisy Jones but still an enjoyable, entertaining and easy listen.

Entertaining

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Read this after 7 husbands of Evelyn Hugo and was disappointed but easy listening, well read

Average

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I cannot stress this enough I think is one of my favourite books???? I have never EVER felt anything as strong in response to a book!! It is incredible and atypical and brilliant - I would recommend wholeheartedly

Amazing

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it helped me sort through my own complicated feelings about love and my own relationship

insightful

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This book shows how marriage needs work and life can get messy and marriages can fall apart even when u love someone . Characters are great and the book is narrated very well .

How love gets messy

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