I Love You".Īs the months pass, each new message fills her with encouragement and sends her on a new adventure. Within the package are ten envelopes, one for each month after Gerry died, containing messages from him, all ending with "P.S. Deeply distraught, Holly withdraws from her family and friends out of grief, until her mother calls her informing her of a package addressed to her. By winter that year, Gerry suddenly dies of a brain tumor, and Holly realizes how much he means to her as well as how insignificant their arguments were. They are deeply in love, but they fight occasionally. Holly and Gerry are a married couple who live in Dublin. I Love You is Irish writer Cecelia Ahern's debut novel, published in 2004. This book will be a good choice if you love to read love stories. I think Cecelia Ahern did a brilliant job of portraying the dilemmas faced by Holly during her grief. I have seen a few people struggling in their lives after the death of someone close to them at a young age due to a terminal illness. "There is absolutely nothing wrong with returning to the house you grew up in every now and again. Sometimes it was cruelly taken away too soon, but it's what you did with it that counted, not how long it lasted." “She had been given a wonderful gift: life. "Shoot for the moon, even if you fail, you'll land among the stars." Will these letters help her to recover from the sadness caused by his death?
PSST I LOVE YOU BOOK SERIES
Gerry wrote a series of letters before he died to help Holly get her life back together. What will you do if you lose the person you love the most at a young age? Holly faced such a predicament when her husband Gerry passed away due to a brain tumor. If only life, widowhood, and grief were as neat and tidy as Cecilia Ahern imagined. The sad part is that our culture is horrible at understanding grief, and stories like this-although sweet and pretty-only serve to reinforce false assumptions about what grief and widowhood are like for those who've never experienced it themselves. But hey-people read to escape, to vicariously experience a fantasy world. I've met many young widows and widowers over the past 2 1/2 years, and all of them would agree that the plot of the novel is unrealistic. Some of the issues raised are spot-on, but the level of "healing" and "closure" (both gag-worthy terms to a young widow) that Holly achieves in only a year are ridiculously unrealistic. But I've been widowed for 2 1/2 years right now-I was 27 and my husband 28 when he died-and from a grief standpoint and as representation of a believabe human experience, I only give it a C. And as a nice, sweet novel, it worked.I guess. I'm impressed that Cecilia Ahern was able to imagine the scenario, flush it out, and write an okay novel about it at only 21 years old.
PSST I LOVE YOU BOOK MOVIE
I have mixed feelings about both the book and the movie (which is irrelevant, except that it influenced my experience of the book). And the movie changed so much of the book that it made it difficult to settle into the book as an independent, standalone work. I made the mistake of seeing the movie before reading the book, thinking that the book is always better than the movie.
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