Publisher's Synopsis
Love Is Usually Where You Left It.
What is love? This is not only the title of a catchy song from the 1990's but also a fascinating question. Love is all around. Love is a battlefield. Love is blindness. Love is a wonderful thing. Yes, more song titles; but also attempts to answer that question. But which is right? There's a pretty broad spectrum of answers right there. Here's another song title / question that may help clear things up: Where does love go when it dies? Oooh, that's deep. But here's the thing - love; real love, is eternal. It never dies. And it can't be summed up by just one pop stars song title; because love is everything.
But, if we go back to that original question, there is one thing that love is for sure; and that is a little rubbish with directions / lacking a good sat-nav. Because love does get lost. Quite regularly. And when it does, you sometimes need a little help in knowing where to find it.
Clive and Gayle Ford, products of teenage broken homes, were high school sweethearts. Even becoming unexpectedly pregnant before they had even taken school exams couldn't stop them; for they had a love so deep that it echoed through time and an unbreakable belief that it would always be: You and Me vs. The World.
But when the realities of bills and mortgages and mundane jobs highlight lost educational aspirations, shattered dreams and lost adolescent years, they cast large shadows over even the deepest love. During a depressingly low point in their relationship Clive and Gayle agree to separate but promise to remain together, maintaining a loving family, until their child, Jack, is ready to leave home.
Eight years later, as Jack is leaving to begin life at University, Gayle and Clive begin making plans for their own separate lives.
But should they really be breaking up?
And become another statistic to add to the sad number of couples who allow true love to slip between their fingers?
A chance meeting between Clive and mysterious love guru Jeremy Corden, of the Love Is... relationship agency, offers an alternative. For a small fee, of course, Jeremy offers to devise Clive and Gayle a weekend of events designed to revisit their most important moments and memories and reawaken feelings that are lost; assuring that true love doesn't die but merely gets forgotten and misplaced. Could it be, as Jeremy promises, that actually love is usually where you left it .....?
Packed with quirky and humorous life and love observations, love is usually where you left it is a comedy adventure wrapped around a love story that has an overwhelming relevance and message for everyone who has ever been in love.
