To Be Sung Underwater by Tom McNeal, Little, Brown, $29.99.
Judith Whitman believes in the sort of love that “picks you up in Akron, Ohio, and sets you down in Rio de Janeiro”.
Yet after finding just that kind of love as a teenager, she ended up marrying someone else instead.
Now in her 40s, she decides to revisit the road not taken and starts a search for her lost love.
Yet can we ever recapture the intense feelings of our youth? A truly memorable and heartfelt novel, this is a wonderful read that, like Judith’s idea of love, sweeps you up and takes you to another place and time.