Book profile
The Island We Left Behind
- Subgenre
- romance
- Edition year
- 2021-11-30
- Spice
- Heat not verified
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Why these tropes fit
Childhood friends Ellen and Lucas build a family, but their happiness is shattered when their son Jamie becomes perilously ill. In 1920s New York, Ellen undertakes a cross-country journey with Jamie in search of recovery, facing separation from Lucas and from every place she has called home.
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- Friends to Lovers: “where they had met as children, become friends, and over time found love” source
- Sacrifice: “Ellen knows what she must do. What every mother would do to save their child.” source
- Strong Heroine: “it is down to her to take Jamie to a place he might recover” source
- Angst: “Until their beloved son Jamie becomes perilously ill, and Ellen is given an impossible choice.” source
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