Phoebe is getting ready to go on the trip of a lifetime, a year long journey across Europe. She’s having second thoughts…..again , even her friends don’t think she will go . When she arrives at St Pancras station she is met with a delay with no end in sight . This has to be a sign that she’s not meant to go, right ? Then she meets Sam .

Sam is leaving London for a year and is going back to the small island of his childhood to find out what he can about his father who abandoned his family when Sam was young . It’s a trip that Sam knows he has to take , doesn’t he ? Then he meets Phoebe.

I am not a romantic, I do not believe in love at first sight, I do not believe that you can fall in love with someone just hours after meeting them. Call me cynical if you must .

So naturally I tend to stay away from the romance section. However I decided to give ‘The day we meet again’ a go. What attracted me to it was the fact that it was different from other ‘Boy meets girl’ books. Phoebe and Sam meet just as they are about to go on year long trips.

They spend a few hours with each other, talking , laughing and discussing what they have in store for the next twelve months. Their trains are ready to leave so they make a promise to each other that if they both still feel the same they will meet again in exactly one year.

I loved the fact that it’s written from both Sam and Phoebe’s point of view. I felt like I was enjoying coffee and sunshine in paris with Phoebe one moment and the next I was on a windy little island with Sam.

A beautiful story of adventure, taking risks, friendship and of course – love.  

The Day we Meet Again  by Miranda Dickinson  paperback £7.99