Cecelia Ahern - How to Fall in Love... With Life

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First published in Great Britain by HarperCollins Publishers 2013

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Source ISBN: 9780007350490

Ebook Edition © October 2013 ISBN: 9780007559206

Version: 2017-05-20

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Title Page How to Fall in Love … With Life Cecelia Ahern and the General Public

Copyright Copyright Copyright Glamour readers’ inspirational stories Extract from ‘How to Fall in Love’ About the Author Also by Author About the Publisher Published by HarperCollins Publishers Ltd 1 London Bridge Street London SE1 9GF www.harpercollins.co.uk First published in Great Britain by HarperCollins Publishers 2013 Copyright © Cecelia Ahern 2013 Cover layout design © HarperCollins Publishers Ltd 2013 Cecelia Ahern asserts the moral right to be identified as the author of this work. A catalogue copy of this book is available from the British Library. This novel is entirely a work of fiction. The names, characters and incidents portrayed in it are the work of the author’s imagination. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events or localities is entirely coincidental. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the non-exclusive, non-transferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, down-loaded, decompiled, reverse engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereinafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins. Source ISBN: 9780007350490 Ebook Edition © October 2013 ISBN: 9780007559206 Version: 2017-05-20

Glamour readers’ inspirational stories Glamour readers’ inspirational stories ‘The coach stopped and I woke up, tired and groggy from the long journey – a flight from London, a couple of nights in a run-down hostel, a day long coach journey through Germany and Italy. But when I stepped out of the coach and into the hot Roman sun, I realised it’s all been worth it. All the scrimping and saving for the last year has led me to here. I will never forget that moment I first saw the eternal city. Tourists bustling about, cars beeping whilst Vespas darted in and out of traffic, couples flirting with each other in the musical language of Italian. That’s when I realised, this is where I want to live for the rest of my life.’ Taylor Jones

Extract from ‘How to Fall in Love’

About the Author

Also by Author

About the Publisher

‘Fine,’ I said confidently, ‘If your life doesn’t change, it’s your decision what you do. But I’m telling you that it can. I’ll show you. You and me, we’ll do it together, we’ll see how wonderful life can be. I promise you.’

from How to Fall in Love by Cecelia Ahern

She has just two weeks. Two weeks to teach him how to fall in love – with his own life.

To celebrate publication of Cecelia Ahern’s How to Fall in Love , we asked GLAMOUR magazine readers to share their inspirational stories about that defining moment in their life – read on for our favourites, and also for a preview of Cecelia’s new novel.

‘The coach stopped and I woke up, tired and groggy from the long journey – a flight from London, a couple of nights in a run-down hostel, a day long coach journey through Germany and Italy. But when I stepped out of the coach and into the hot Roman sun, I realised it’s all been worth it. All the scrimping and saving for the last year has led me to here. I will never forget that moment I first saw the eternal city. Tourists bustling about, cars beeping whilst Vespas darted in and out of traffic, couples flirting with each other in the musical language of Italian. That’s when I realised, this is where I want to live for the rest of my life.’

Taylor Jones

‘I had been studying law and languages at university but realised I wasn’t happy and began searching for something more meaningful. I signed up with a care agency and began a few shifts on a head injury rehab unit, where I met a young lad the same age as me, who had also been studying languages at Uni, but who had sustained a devastating head injury when he was hit by a car one evening. I will never forget the feeling I had when I suddenly understood how precious life is – and I still work with brain injury survivors, twenty one years later!’

Alison Wright

‘The amazing feeling of seeing the outside world again after so many weeks of being trapped inside threatened to overwhelm me. Tears coursed down my cheeks as I gazed at the wonder of daffodils blooming in the weak spring sunlight, and the leaves beginning to bud on the previously bare trees. I had feared that I would never again breathe in the cool fresh Spring air or set my unsteady feet upon the moist earth. My experience in hospital with life threatening septicaemia had woken me up to how precious every moment of life is. And now I was on my way home to take my gorgeous children into my arms & make the most of every day that life still had to offer me. I would never again take life for granted.’