Ordinary Love

Once in a while one of those truly brilliant books comes along that takes over your life - and, for 2025, Ordinary Love is the book hitting the spot

This novel is remarkable and profoundly moving. A beautifully written, intelligent, quietly hopeful story about being lost and found.

Evocative and emotional, surprising and propulsive, the whole of it brimming with tenderness. Rutkowski's prose is poetic and sharp, writing to be savored. Perhaps most unforgettable is the chemistry between Emily and Gen, which crackles and explodes on the page

Ordinary Love sparkles with the excitement, danger and wonder of love in all its forms

This summer's smart beach read, with shades of Pineapple Street and The Paper Palace

I stayed up way too late to finish this beautifully written novel, which had me hooked from the first page. A truthful, hopeful look at navigating family, life and love.

A sweeping tale. Tender, truthful and gorgeously written, I devoured it in a few days.

This is an almost unbearably beautiful love story. Emily and Gen feel completely real: on the rare occasion I managed to put this book down, I thought about them constantly. It broke my heart to let them go when I turned the final page. Ordinary Love is extraordinary.