How to Save a Life
A Novel
(Sprache: Englisch)
In this moving love story, three friends find out what it really means to save someone.
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In this moving love story, three friends find out what it really means to save someone.A heart-stopping, heart-wrenching, and heartwarming story that kept me reading well into the night. Clare Pooley, New York Times bestselling author of The Authenticity Project
Kerry Smith is going to save lives and so is her best friend, Tim Palmer. After years of working toward medical school, they are about to take their entrance exams. But on the eve of the new millennium, a classmate goes into cardiac arrest, changing everything.
For nearly eighteen minutes, rising soccer star Joel Greenaway is dead. For nearly eighteen minutes, Kerry performs CPR on her longtime crush. And for nearly eighteen minutes, Tim is too shocked to help. Though they don t yet know it, those eighteen minutes will change the next eighteen years of their lives.
Because, as it turns out, saving a life doesn t always guarantee a happy ending.
With his soccer career cut short, Joel lashes out and breaks Kerry s heart by ending their burgeoning relationship with a cruelty that derails her future, while Tim struggles to reconcile his dream of becoming a doctor with the reality of failing to act. As each struggles to move on from the events of that fateful New Year s Eve, their lives can t seem to stop colliding year after year. Ensnared by their shared histories and her big heart, Kerry soon finds herself picking up the pieces after both broken men. But when Kerry is the one who needs saving, will anyone be there for her?
As Kerry, Tim, and Joel discover what it means to love, to forgive, and to find your calling, How to Save a Life shows us that there is more than one way to save a life and more than one path to finding meaning in your own.
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1Kerry
December 31, 1999
Six minutes.
I have six minutes left to be kissed.
Three hundred seconds and counting, if I don t want to end another year let s face it, an entire millennium as the only seventeen-year-old in Brighton who has never snogged another human being.
Most of the girls in the sixth form have gone all the way. You can tell from the way they move: dancing wildly on the shingle beach, wearing heels that keep sinking into the gaps between the pebbles, unsteady and sexy and
Which do you think will implode first, the National Grid or air traffic control? Tim says, passing me the can of Diamond White cider. When I raise it to my lips, all that s left is apple froth.
I look up at the sky. You probably shouldn t be quite so excited about the idea of the world ending.
He grins. I can t help it if I crave a bit of drama sometimes.
You and me both.
We don t have long to wait to get our share of it.
This time next December, I ll be at Manchester Uni. And, impossible as it seems now, the odds are that by then I will have been kissed and hopefully a lot more. But the prospect of finally losing my virginity isn t even the most exciting thing about the year 2000 because in a year s time, I ll be training as a doctor. With a bit of luck, and the right questions on his physics exam paper, Tim will be doing the same.
If Y2K doesn t wipe us out . . . he looks at his Swatch five minutes from now. Makes me feel quite reckless, being on the brink of disaster.
Reckless isn t Tim s style, but his eyes are bright: I can see the beach fires the hippies have lit reflected in them. Except it s not just the flames. There s something else in his face, an intensity . . .
Oh shit.
He s going to try to kiss me.
He mustn t.
Maybe it wouldn t be the absolute worst thing, if we did it in private. We ve rehearsed slings and burn dressings on each other, so why not kissing? Both of us want to be prepared
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for when it really matters.
Except I don t think he s thinking of it as a rehearsal . . .
I move backward and break eye contact, staring resolutely over Tim s shoulder to where Joel and his mates are having a knockabout on the lawns, lit by the Victorian lamps that line the prom. The frost has set the earth like concrete but the boys don t seem to notice. They re too busy trying to outrun Joel, even though they know they never will.
He moves twice as fast as the others, the football always at his feet. He was in the same class as me until we were sixteen. While Tim and I stayed on at school, Joel hit the big time, starting a professional football apprenticeship with our city club, the Dolphins. He s one in a million. Everyone either wants to be him or be with him, me included. I think Tim might be the only person I know who doesn t care about Joel one way or the other.
. . . Perhaps we can blame the Pagans. You know, for deciding New Year should happen in December, Tim says, embarking on a new lecture. I let the words float toward me, without taking them in. Or I suppose it might have been the Romans.
Maybe. I stay far enough away that he can t reach. Everything has to be clear for Tim: he s one of the smartest kids in the sixth form but sometimes he s also the densest, and I can t let him convince himself it s a good idea to kiss me.
Kiss me.
I imagine saying those words to Joel. Let myself believe for a moment that instead of laughing in my face, he might do as I ask.
On the lawns, Ant makes a clumsy att
Except I don t think he s thinking of it as a rehearsal . . .
I move backward and break eye contact, staring resolutely over Tim s shoulder to where Joel and his mates are having a knockabout on the lawns, lit by the Victorian lamps that line the prom. The frost has set the earth like concrete but the boys don t seem to notice. They re too busy trying to outrun Joel, even though they know they never will.
He moves twice as fast as the others, the football always at his feet. He was in the same class as me until we were sixteen. While Tim and I stayed on at school, Joel hit the big time, starting a professional football apprenticeship with our city club, the Dolphins. He s one in a million. Everyone either wants to be him or be with him, me included. I think Tim might be the only person I know who doesn t care about Joel one way or the other.
. . . Perhaps we can blame the Pagans. You know, for deciding New Year should happen in December, Tim says, embarking on a new lecture. I let the words float toward me, without taking them in. Or I suppose it might have been the Romans.
Maybe. I stay far enough away that he can t reach. Everything has to be clear for Tim: he s one of the smartest kids in the sixth form but sometimes he s also the densest, and I can t let him convince himself it s a good idea to kiss me.
Kiss me.
I imagine saying those words to Joel. Let myself believe for a moment that instead of laughing in my face, he might do as I ask.
On the lawns, Ant makes a clumsy att
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Autoren-Porträt von Eva Carter
Eva Carter was inspired to write How to Save a Life by her own experience of giving CPR to her partner, who was successfully resuscitated, as well as her mother s stories of work as a trauma nurse. Eva Carter is a pseudonym for internationally bestselling nonfiction and rom-com writer Kate Harrison, who worked as a BBC reporter before becoming an author. She lives in Brighton on the south coast of England and loves Grey's Anatomy, walking her dog, and running very slowly on the seafront.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Eva Carter
- 2021, 448 Seiten, Maße: 16,2 x 24,2 cm, Gebunden, Englisch
- Verlag: Ballantine Books
- ISBN-10: 0593158873
- ISBN-13: 9780593158876
- Erscheinungsdatum: 17.07.2021
Sprache:
Englisch
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How to Save a Life is so rich and fully rounded a sweeping, brave, epic love story. I was hooked from the very first page! I loved it. All the stars! Josie Silver, New York Times bestselling author of One Day in December and The Two Lives of Lydia BirdGrey s Anatomy meets The Light We Lost in this page-turning drama about three friends whose lives are irrevocably changed by a split-second decision. This sweeping saga illuminates the heartbreak of unfortunate romantic timing, the steadfast sacrifices we make for the ones we love, and the strength it takes to overcome the impossible. Hannah Orenstein, author of Head Over Heels
I was absorbed by this enthralling love story from the very first page. Rosie Walsh, New York Times bestselling author of Ghosted
A gripping love story that doesn t shy away from the mess and complexity of real life. I couldn t put it down until I reached the final page. Beth O Leary, author of The Flatshare and The Switch
I was completely swept away by How to Save a Life, which truly is a salve for the soul. It s a beautiful book, full of drama, passion, and truth: You ll remember Joel, Kerry, and Tim long after you finish reading their story. Rowan Coleman, author of The Day We Met
How to Save a Life is an epic novel that starts with one life-or-death event and then follows the lives of three complex people to show how that moment changed everything. And this novel will change you. It s extraordinary a very, very special book indeed. Julie Cohen, author of Dear Thing
Carter delivers plenty of drama. Readers will champion these characters efforts to find themselves. Publishers Weekly
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