Teenage pacts and marriage vows. Two things which doesn't always go hand in hand when you are young and foolish. But for two people, a pact could be something which goes a long way and makes life that much more bearable to cope with.
After all, who doesn't like the sound of knowing that you have someone to marry and fall in love with if nothing else works out for you in life? But just sometimes...how will you know if it will work out, how do you know if the person you made a pact with when you were teenagers is still the same person? And what about you too...are you still the same person or are there things that you're hiding from you partner, things that you want to keep hidden.
That's how Kate feels when it comes to the 10th anniversary of her and Paul's marriage. With two children under their belt and a lifetime of friendship and knowledge, life should seem simple for the two, but they aren't. There's tension between both of them and with their eldest son Harry, getting to an age where he is able to pick up on it and to understand what's going on, it's harder to deal with the things, the things which are needed to be said.
Told in alternative chapters of their lives, We go from present day to back to Kate and Paul's childhood, we learn about them growing up while at the same time we learn of their early twenties and then through the present day, we get get to see the struggles that they both went through together as well as on their own. The ups and downs of life within a public company and the secrets which should've been kept hidden but weren't.
We learn of Paul's background and family, the family which comes to become more of a family to Kate growing up than her own family did. We see the struggle she has when it comes to the relationship with her father who, despite being home sometimes, was more away than not and even when he was home, he was always shut up in his office, while her mother was swanning off to London and back to Somerset again constantly before her early death.
Love Will Tear Us Apart isn't just a book about a marriage which is rocky, it's a novel about growing up in the eighties, of growing up with a best friend who went to public school while you went to a private one. It's a story of learning to over come struggles and experiences, of highs and lows.
After all, who doesn't like the sound of knowing that you have someone to marry and fall in love with if nothing else works out for you in life? But just sometimes...how will you know if it will work out, how do you know if the person you made a pact with when you were teenagers is still the same person? And what about you too...are you still the same person or are there things that you're hiding from you partner, things that you want to keep hidden.
That's how Kate feels when it comes to the 10th anniversary of her and Paul's marriage. With two children under their belt and a lifetime of friendship and knowledge, life should seem simple for the two, but they aren't. There's tension between both of them and with their eldest son Harry, getting to an age where he is able to pick up on it and to understand what's going on, it's harder to deal with the things, the things which are needed to be said.
Told in alternative chapters of their lives, We go from present day to back to Kate and Paul's childhood, we learn about them growing up while at the same time we learn of their early twenties and then through the present day, we get get to see the struggles that they both went through together as well as on their own. The ups and downs of life within a public company and the secrets which should've been kept hidden but weren't.
We learn of Paul's background and family, the family which comes to become more of a family to Kate growing up than her own family did. We see the struggle she has when it comes to the relationship with her father who, despite being home sometimes, was more away than not and even when he was home, he was always shut up in his office, while her mother was swanning off to London and back to Somerset again constantly before her early death.
Love Will Tear Us Apart isn't just a book about a marriage which is rocky, it's a novel about growing up in the eighties, of growing up with a best friend who went to public school while you went to a private one. It's a story of learning to over come struggles and experiences, of highs and lows.