It Ends With Us

Lily Bloom's story asks what a person owes to love and what she owes to herself, and Colleen Hoover refuses to make the answer comfortable. It Ends With Us follows a young woman building a life and a business in Boston when a relationship with the neurosurgeon Ryle Kincaid forces her to reckon with patterns she recognises from her own childhood. Hoover writes in close narration with interleaved memories, and the novel handles domestic abuse, loyalty and the difficulty of leaving with more care than the romance label suggests. Readers should know that the subject matter is heavy. Reasons readers return to it: • Treats domestic abuse with directness rather than melodrama • Narration that moves between the present and remembered years • Book-club material on choice, loyalty and breaking cycles • Published by Simon & Schuster under the Atria imprint Recommended for adult readers of contemporary fiction who want an emotionally demanding story, stocked at Boipoka.