{"product_id":"if-only-a-novel","title":"If Only: A Novel","description":"\u003cp\u003eKate Eberlen, the bestselling author of Miss You, returns with a serendipitous and modern romance. For fans of David Nicholls and Jojo Moyes, If Only is the story of two people who fall in love and the secrets that tear them apart.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHow can you know someone until you learn to talk about the past?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLetty and Alf are the only English speakers in an Italian class in Rome, where they discover that the language that really connects them is dance. Alf is nineteen, a former ballroom champion who seems reassuringly confident and at ease with himself. Letty, twenty-two, is unusually reserved and studious, having been forced to give up her childhood dream of becoming a ballet dancer. They come from different worlds, but when they waltz around the Piazza Navona together, a passionate relationship begins.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCan their decision to live in the moment in the Eternal City keep their histories from encroaching? Why is Alf living in a shared apartment, estranged from his family? And what has wrenched Letty away from the apparent security of her Oxford University degree? They each find themselves haunted by the fear that the secrets not yet shared will tear them apart.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIf Only is a novel about identity, secrets, passion and dance—and the indefinable collision of physical, emotional and intellectual excitement that we call falling in love.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The Aged Page","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51976059814190,"sku":"9781443459273","price":2.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0914\/5289\/9630\/files\/IMG_7375.heic?v=1776884209","url":"https:\/\/www.theagedpage.com\/products\/if-only-a-novel","provider":"The Aged Page","version":"1.0","type":"link"}