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If He Had Been With Me

Laura Nowlin

  • 368 pages · about 6 hours
  • First published 2013
  • 6 editions
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1 About this book

A BookTok Viral Sensation An achingly authentic and raw portrait of love, regret, and the life-altering impact of the relationships we hold closest to us, this YA romance bestseller is perfect for fans of Colleen Hoover, Jenny Han, and You've Reached Sam. If he had been with me, everything would have been different… Autumn and Finn used to be inseparable.

But then something changed. Or they changed. Now, they do their best to ignore each other. Autumn has her boyfriend Jamie, and her close-knit group of friends. And Finn has become that boy at school, the one everyone wants to be around. That still doesn't stop the way Autumn feels every time she and Finn cross paths, and the growing, nagging thought that maybe things could have been different.

Maybe they should be together. But come August, things will change forever. And as time passes, Autumn will be forced to confront how else life might have been different if they had never parted ways….

  • Romance
  • Coming of age
  • Grief
  • Friendship
  • Love
  • Children's fiction
  • Young Adult
  • Loss (Psychology)

2 What to expect

A teen story about two childhood best friends who drift apart in high school. Slow and emotional.

Good for readers who want: a love story, and a book that makes you cry.

3 About Laura Nowlin

 

Laura Nowlin is an American author of young adult fiction about love, friendship, grief and growing up. She studied English and creative writing at Missouri State University and has worked at a public library, where readers helped inspire her writing. She is best known for the bestseller If He Had Been with Me, about friendship, unspoken feelings and how small choices shape lives. She also wrote If Only I Had Told Her and This Song Is (Not) for You.

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