A page-turning irresistible novel of class ambition and love this is the breathtaking story
of a woman risking everything for a second chance at the one who got away • "A brilliant
examination of queerness friendship motherhood longing and ambition. It’s funny and moving
and sexy. Above all it’s a stunning love story.”—J. Courtney Sullivan bestselling author of
The Cliffs Emily has by all appearances a perfect life: a townhouse on Manhattan’s Upper
East Side two healthy children and a husband who showers her with attention. But the truth is
more complicated: Emily’s marriage is in trouble her relationship with her parents is fraught
and she is still nursing a heartbreak from long ago. When Emily runs into her high school
girlfriend at a cocktail party that heartbreak comes roaring back. But Gen Hall is no longer
the lanky hungry kid with holes in her shoes who Emily loved in her youth. Instead Gen is now
a famous Olympic athlete with sponsorship deals and a string of high-profile ex-girlfriends.
Emily and Gen circle one another cautiously drawn together by a magnetic attraction and
scarred by their shared history. Once upon a time Gen knew everything about Emily. And yet
she still abandoned her. Can Emily trust Gen again? Can they forgive each other for the
mistakes they made in their past? Should Emily risk her children her privacy and the fragile
peace she has found to be with a woman she loved long ago? A sweeping romance Ordinary Love
is the beautiful wrenching completely seductive story of two people trying to forge a path
toward hope bound by a love they discovered when they were too young to understand its power.
