PS I Love You

With the passing of a loved one, heartbreak is always sure to follow. Time heals all wounds, but is time enough? When you love someone you lose, you want to hold on to them for as long as possible. What if there was a way to stay connected to that person?

Cecelia Ahern's PS I Love You tells the story of Holly Kennedy, a recent widow who suffers from the loss of her husband, Gerry. Holly can barely make it out of bed. Her bank account is slowly thinning, and she hasn't even begun to look for a job. She's alienating herself from her friends and family. Worst of all, she misses Gerry more and more every day.

Everyone idolized Gerry and Holly. The high school sweethearts were the perfect couple, together and apart. They always had a ball together, even when they were fighting. Holly simply can't imagine her life without him. She doesn't know how to go on.

But Holly soon discovers that her husband isn't gone. He comes back to her every month in the form of a letter.

Each letter has a month written on the front, and there's a letter for 1o months in the year. Gerry planned out almost a whole year for Holly for after he had passed away. He doesn't want her to mourn over him. He is the only one who knows Holly better than she knows herself, and he can't let her waste her life away.

In Gerry's letters, he gives Holly instructions ranging from buying a bedside lamp to going on a vacation with her friends. Each time she opens a letter she is filled with the happiness she felt when Gerry was alive. It's almost as if he is still with her.

After she completes each task, her heart mends a little bit more and her life starts piecing itself together again. Even though Gerry is gone, Holly feels his presence every once in a while. When she reads his letters or sees something that reminds her of him, he is suddenly there by her side. But what happens when there are no more letters left?

PS I Love You is creative, sad, heartwarming, and funny all at once. It's a brilliant new twist on an uplifting love story. Anyone who has ever lost a loved one is sure to appreciate this novel. It brings hope to those who need to pick themselves up and start a new life and a new beginning. Also turned into a movie, the film is gratifyingly similiar to the novel and equally as good.