N.B. This review is spoiler-free!
Pub date (UK paperback): 14/02/19
The moment I read the blurb for The Year After You by Nina de Pass I knew I had to read this book. So of course you can imagine my excitement when I was given and ARC of this book for free in exchange for an honest review! It's been a long time since a YA contemporary has hit me in the emotions quite as hard as The Year After You Did, and I loved every second of it.
Nine months ago, New Year's Eve, there's a car accident in San Francisco. Cara survives, her best friend Georgina doesn't.
Consumed by grief, Cara cuts herself off from the world and is struggling to stay afloat, so her mother decides to send her off to "exile" in Switzerland. Hope Hall is supposed to be the fresh start Cara needs to put the accident and Georgina's death behind her; no one here knows her story and she'd very much like to keep it that way. Her new friends, however, have a different idea.
As Cara gets ever-closer to the enigmatic Hector, the one person who might truly understand her grief, and her roommate Ren, things start to chance. But can Cara embrace life at Hope Hall when she doesn't believe she deserves a second chance?