How can you know someone until you learn to talk about the past?<\/p>\n
Letty and Alf are the only English speakers in an Italian class in Rome, where they discover that the language that really connects them is dance. Alf is nineteen, a former ballroom champion who seems reassuringly confident and at ease with himself. Letty, twenty-two, is unusually reserved and studious, having been forced to give up her childhood dream of becoming a ballet dancer. They come from different worlds, but when they waltz around the Piazza Navona together, a passionate relationship begins.<\/p>\n
Can their decision to live in the moment in the Eternal City keep their histories from encroaching? Why is Alf living in a shared apartment, estranged from his family? And what has wrenched Letty away from the apparent security of her Oxford University degree? They each find themselves haunted by the fear that the secrets not yet shared will tear them apart.<\/p>\n
If Only is a novel about identity, secrets, passion and dance\u2014and the indefinable collision of physical, emotional and intellectual excitement that we call falling in love.<\/p>\n
\u201cIf Only\u201d is a perfect example of you can\u2019t judge its book by its cover.\u00a0 The author is compared to Jojo Moynes and it is easy to see why with \u201cIf Only.\u201d\u00a0 Eberlen, like Moynes has created a bittersweet story with flawed characters.\u00a0 Their flaws not only make the characters interesting, but also drives the plot forward in ways that are surprising.\u00a0 Never fear, this is a feel-good story, but there are significant bumps along the way and true moments of sadness blended in.\u00a0 The story is told from the perspectives of Alf, Letty and Frances, Letty\u2019s mother, making \u201cIf Only\u201d a multi-dimensional book.<\/p>\n