first loves

In 1960s Norfolk, England, seventeen-year-old Clem Ackroyd lives with his mother and grandmother in a tiny cottage, but his life is transformed when he falls in love with the daughter of a wealthy farmer in this tale that flashes back through the stories of three generations.

This is the story of two small-town former high school sweethearts from opposite sides of the tracks. Now middle-aged, they have taken wildly divergent paths, but neither has lived the life they imagined, and neither can forget the passionate first love that forever altered their world. When they are both called back to their hometown for the funeral of the mentor who once gave them shelter, they will be forced to confront the choices each has made, and ask whether love can truly rewrite the past.

Direct and vivid in its telling of the details of a day in the life of Clarissa Dalloway, the novel manages ultimately to deliver much more. It is the feelings that loom behind those daily events - the social alliances, the shopkeeper's exchange, the fact of death--that give Mrs. Dalloway texture and richness.

An old man reminisces about his first love, a young runaway who taught him more about life than anyone had before or since.

Dying scriptwriter Philip Nilson spends his last days writing about a forgotten but critical moment in the life of Greta Garbo.

After three decades of being apart, Charles Callahan finds his first love Sian and they meet again and again knowning their meetings must end.

After Christie Longchamp's parents die in a fire, she and her brother go to live with her uncle where more trouble begins.

Fourteen-year-old Sylvie, having dreamt that one day she will marry her best fried Carl, is hurt when she begins to realize that he might be more interested in boys then girls, and when Carl acts on his feelings for his classmate, Paul, and becomes the victim of homophobia, Sylvie and her friend, Miranda, help him overcome the difficult situation.

A humorous collection of poetry told from the point of view of both boys and girls who share their emotions about first loves, crushes, and broken hearts.