But, unfortunately, the day before the wedding, we got a call and were told that the grandparents wouldn’t be able to attend. Since they were so special to her, my wife was, of course, looking forward to having these two people involved in her wedding. When she turned sixteen, as soon as she got her license, she would drive up to visit them on the weekends and even when she went off to college (about two hours away) she still went to visit them a couple of times a month just to check on them, to make sure they had groceries, and all those things a nice granddaughter would do. My wife was very fond of these two people-the other set of grandparents had died when she was young-and she was one of those people who loved to visit on the weekends, growing up.

The Notebook was inspired by my wife’s grandparents, two wonderful people who spent over 60 years together. It wasn’t easy to come up with the plot for my first (published) novel, but in the end, I decided to go with something that I knew I could do. Shining with a beauty that is rarely found in current literature, The Notebookestablishes Nicholas Sparks as a classic storyteller with a unique insight into the only emotion that really matters. The result is a deeply moving portrait of love itself, the tender moments, and fundamental changes that affect us all. As it unfolds, their tale miraculously becomes something different, with much higher stakes. Like a puzzle within a puzzle, the story of Noah and Allie is just beginning. With her impending marriage only weeks away, Allie is forced to confront her hopes and dreams for the future, a future that only she can shape. Still, the obstacles that once ended their previous relationship remain, and the gulf between their worlds is too vast to ignore.

Allie Nelson, twenty-nine, is now engaged to another man, but realizes that the original passion she felt for Noah has not dimmed with the passage of time. until she unexpectedly returns to his town to see him once again. Unable to find her, yet unwilling to forget the summer they spent together, Noah is content to live with only memories.

Noah, thirty-one, is restoring a plantation home to its former glory, and he is haunted by images of the beautiful girl he met fourteen years earlier, a girl he loved like no other. Set amid the austere beauty of coastal North Carolina in 1946, The Notebook begins with the story of Noah Calhoun, a rural Southerner returned home from World War II. The Notebook is an achingly tender story about the enduring power of love, a story of miracles that will stay with you forever. A woman experiencing a morning ritual she doesn’t understand. A man with a faded, well-worn notebook open in his lap.

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