The Notebook Nicholas Sparks

In a nursing home in North Carolina, an old man named Duke reads daily from a worn notebook to a woman deep in the fog of dementia. The story he reads is set in the 1940s — the summer that poor, passionate Noah Calhoun fell headlong in love with Allie Hamilton, a girl from a wealthy family who her parents deemed far too good for him. They spend one perfect summer together before Allie is pulled away and their correspondence quietly cut off. Years later, on the eve of her engagement to another man, Allie sees a newspaper feature about Noah — and drives to find him. Sparks’s debut is a tender, unabashedly emotional love story that refuses to apologise for its sentimentality. It became a cultural touchstone and its film adaptation one of the defining romantic films of a generation, cementing Sparks as the king of contemporary heartbreak romance.