Heartwarming and uplifting novel examining love in all its guises. As a boy, Charlie St Cloud narrowly survived a car crash that killed Sam, his little brother. Years later, still unable to recover from his loss, Charlie has taken a job tending to the lawns and monuments in the New England cemetery where Sam is buried. When he meets Tess Carroll, a captivating, adventurous woman in training for a solo sailing trip around the globe, they discover a beautiful and uncommon connection that, after a violent storm at sea, eventually forces them to choose between death and live, past and present, holding on and letting go. The Death and Life of Charlie St Cloud is a romantic and uplifting novel about second chances and the liberating power of love.

A nice story and one that I could imagine being made into a very poplar movie with characters like Julia Roberts and Tom Hanks. It has a real feel good quality and captivates you from the start so that you just can't put it down. Possibly you think you have the ending sussed in your mind but you're never quite sure until you get there.

Candy-is-Dandy won this book in the book swap game at the Uncon but as I hadn't quite finished it I brought it home to send to her later. As she isn't in a hurry for it I'm passing it on to calalilly first.

Enjoy!

Thank you for passing this onto me Purplerosebud. It doesn't look as if it will take long to read it. I do have a couple of books to read first though and I'm sure Candy-is-Dandy isn't in to much of a hurry for it.

Thank you for passing this on for me to read Purplerosebud. I thoroughly enjoyed it. I definitely didn't want to put it down once I started and it was only sleep and to go shopping that I did put it down for. yes I too could imagine it would be a good story to make into a film. Will send this off to Candy-is-Dandy now.

Thanks ladies. The book arrived safely. I look forward to reading it as you both enjoyed it.