The Best of Adam Sharp written by Graeme Simsion is an intriguing novel. He leads the reader along down a winding path back through the life of Adam Sharp as he looks back on his younger days and wonders if he missed out on the love of his life and how his life would have been different if he had made a different choice back in his 20s.
Ever wonder what happened to your first love? What your life might have been like or where you would be now if you had married them? Sometimes lovers who left each other in high school and went onto other relationships and lives meet up again after their spouses have passed and they are both single again in later life. They pick up their friendship and sometimes their love affair again in old age. Would you still be attracted to that person who looked so good to you when you were 20 now that you are 70 or 80?
Adam at age 26 leaves England for a job opportunity in Melbourne, Australia. He is only there for a short contract job. After work in the evening he likes to go to the local bar and play the piano. One night the strong willed and alluring actress, Angelina Brown walks into the bar and sparks fly. She is married but astranged from her husband at the time and passion fills the air. They have a chance at something bigger, but Adam doesn't take it.
He goes back home and sets up housekeeping with Claire and decides he is happy with the life they have created. Until a post on his computer brings him back to an earlier forgotten time. Should Adam live dangerously and explore the option of rekindling this old romance? Is it worth risking the life you have for a chance at the unknown?
This is a novel that pulls the reader in. going along quite innocuously and then building suspense as Adam tries to sort out his life.
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