{"product_id":"sunlight-finds-you-by-laura-moriarty-9781923058996","title":"Sunlight Finds You","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA compulsive love story from a New York Times bestselling author that spins on the consequence of lies and our capacity for resilience.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e'A cancel-your-plans, hold-your-breath, call-your-best-friend kind of book.'\u003c\/em\u003e Amy Jo Burns\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eA forbidden love blows open the world of a young woman, altering the trajectory of her life.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003ePostwar America is a time of rigid social rules. But when effervescent, seventeen-year-old Nora moves to Florida, she's found paradise—especially after she meets and wins over shy, brilliant Leonard. His mother is welcoming, but his father is suspicious of Nora and her lower-class family.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWhen coerced into breaking off all contact with Leonard, Nora makes a decision that exiles her from the family she loves, and sets off a chain of secrets and betrayals that will follow her for years.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eLaura Moriarty's \u003cem\u003eSunlight Finds You\u003c\/em\u003e is a compelling and warm-hearted love story that explores ideas about family, female desire, sexism, motherhood, and prejudice. It's about our capacity to forgive—ourselves and others—and about finding happiness by refusing to settle for a life that is less than full.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBy the author of the New York Times bestseller, \u003cem\u003eThe Chaperone\u003c\/em\u003e, this is an emotionally rich story whose characters you will care about deeply—for readers of Anne Patchett's \u003cem\u003eTom Lake\u003c\/em\u003e and Patrick Ryan's \u003cem\u003eBuckeye\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePRAISE\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e'Radiant...What begins as a teenage romance in 1950s Florida becomes an intimate, deeply moving story of separation, sacrifice, and self-determination—and of how early love shapes the lives we carry forward.'\u003c\/em\u003e Christina Baker Kline\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e'Illuminates the beguiling power of first love through characters whose teenage choices precipitate lifelong consequences.'\u003c\/em\u003e Sarah McCoy\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e'Laura Moriarty writes with a voice that grabs you from the first page and delights you to the last. Sunlight Finds You is at once captivating, tender, and remarkably attuned to the emotional weather of our time. I love it.'\u003c\/em\u003e Tracey Lien, author of \u003cem\u003eAll That's Left Unsaid\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Penguin Random House NZ","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47638498148588,"sku":"9781923058996","price":31.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9781923058996-sunlight-finds-you.jpg?v=1779072471","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/products\/sunlight-finds-you-by-laura-moriarty-9781923058996","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}