Book Review

We asked the fictional main protagonists from The Light Between Us what they thought of their book. Here’s what they would have said….

Linda Fletcher

Reading it felt like opening my old sketchbook and finding the pressed leaf from our crooked tree—creased, stubborn, still green at the edges. It gets the small truths right: how a corridor in 1985 could feel like a cliff-face, how a mixtape could say what we were too shy to speak, how Sean chased the light while I chased the line and somehow we met in the middle. The book doesn’t tidy our beginnings; it lets them smudge a little, like graphite on the heel of your hand.

Later, it honours the years we carried on—marriage, work, Daniel in uniform, the long echo of Cyprus and a letter that wouldn’t stop rustling in the drawer. It says art won’t save you, but it will tell you the truth if you let it. I’m grateful it gives us room to be flawed and forgiving. If I could, I’d hand it to my younger self and whisper: you are bent, not broken—and you will find your way back to the light.

Sean O’Connell

It felt like flipping through contact sheets from a box I’d taped shut years ago—grainy corridors in North London, a shy lad trying to stand still long enough to be seen, a girl with a sketchbook who did the seeing. The early frames are honest: smudged edges, a crooked tree that became our tripod, mixtapes doing the talking when we couldn’t. My father’s shadow is there too, long as winter, pushing me toward uniform and away from the darkroom. Cyprus isn’t romanticised; it’s sun-bleached distance and the ache of a letter I didn’t know how to read.

The later pages don’t pretend time is kind, but they offer something better—clarity. The book understands that love isn’t a single perfect exposure; it’s a series, dodged and burned until the truth comes up in the tray. It leaves space for Daniel’s choice, for the years we both carried on, and for the courage it takes to open old envelopes. What I like most is that it refuses to freeze us in one frame. It lets us move, refocus, and—finally—find that the light between us was never gone, only waiting to be met.

The Light Between Us will be released on 1st December 2025. To pre-order on Amazon for Kindle, click here.

Paperback version coming soon!

Author’s note: The characters in this book are entirely fictional. The above quotes were written to reflect what the main characters might have said if they were asked.

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