With This Kiss

Written by Carrie Hope Fletcher

Narrated by Beth Noonan Roberts

A brand new timeless romance with a sprinkling of magic from the Number One Sunday Times bestselling author

‘A complete joy to read, and once I’d started I genuinely couldn’t stop. I was entranced and beguiled from start to finish by this beautiful story. Carrie has single-handedly converted me to magic realism’ Jill Mansell

‘Carrie Hope Fletcher is not afraid to tackle big themes in this ambitious story, and the emotional pay-off cuts deep’
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‘A spellbinding and enchanting read with a charming cast of characters, With This Kiss is guaranteed to sweep you off your feet…I adored it’ Holly Miller, The Sight of You

‘Spellbindingly romantic – With This Kiss is utterly captivating. A feat of magical and mystical storytelling’ Laura Jane Williams, Our Stop

‘A gorgeous story with plenty of heart’ M. A. Kuzniar, Midnight in Everwood

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If you knew how your love story ends, would you dare to begin?

From the outside, Lorelai is an ordinary young woman with a normal life. She loves reading, she works at the local cinema and she adores living with her best friend. But she carries a painful burden, something she’s kept hidden for years; whenever she kisses someone on the lips, she sees how they are going to die.

Lorelai has never known if she’s seeing what was always meant to be, or if her kiss is the thing that decides their destiny. And so, she hasn’t kissed anyone since she was eighteen.

Then she meets Grayson. Sweet, clever, funny Grayson. And for the first time in years she yearns for a man’s kiss. But she can’t…or can she? And if she does, should she try to intervene and change what she sees?

Spellbinding, magical and utterly original, With This Kiss is one love story you will never forget.

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Readers are spellbound by With This Kiss

‘A five-star read . . . Fun, enjoyable, funny and sweet with characters I absolutely loved’ NetGalley Reviewer,⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

‘This book was everything I didn't know I needed’ NetGalley Reviewer, ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

‘Beautiful writing [that] captured me from the start. 5 stars’ NetGalley Reviewer, ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

• Language: English
• Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
• Release date: Apr 14, 2022
• ISBN: 9780008400996

Carrie Hope Fletcher

Carrie Hope Fletcher is an actress, singer-songwriter, author and internet personality. As a child, Fletcher played small roles on television and appeared in musical theatre in London's West End.

Reviews for With This Kiss

[heatherlinc · Rating: 3 out of 5 stars]

"With This Kiss" was a fluffy, easy read with little substance. Grayson was a sweetie and he and Lorelai were cute together. However, my favourite relationship was the one Lorelai shared with her best friend, Joanie. They were more like sisters than friends. Overall, a cute read but not a memorable one.

[adonisguilfoyle · Rating: 3 out of 5 stars]

I thought this would be a quick read before the end of the year, but the pacing was so slow in the first half that I didn't think I would ever get to the end! The second half did pick up and I eventually enjoyed the story, which is sort of Hallmark meets Medium, but I think the main problem is the main character, Lorelai. Her best friend and flatmate Joanie is funny, smart and straight-talking, her mother Lila is caring and supportive, and even the guy they work with at the local cinema has hidden depths, but Lorelai is thick, pathetic and spends far too much time sobbing or running away! I wanted to shake her, violently, when she legged it home to cry in her room instead of facing her feelings for poor Grayson - the man gets a romance novel name and is treated like crap by the protagonist. And what is her problem, that she keeps insisting makes her a 'monster'? She has visions of how people will die when she kisses them. The concept is what drew me to the story in the first place, but Lorelai makes such a hash of dealing with her 'gift' that I forgot what the plot was about for the first 100 pages. Premonitions apart, Lorelai could also have been a sympathetic, appealing character, working in an old cinema and setting up a book club that compares novels with film adaptations - which every reader does! - yet her actions (or lack thereof) just make her infuriating. Even when she figures out that she can actually affect people's destinies, and is told by no less than three people that she should try if that helps her to deal with her visions, Lorelai prefers to hide at home and then at her parents' house.Overall, Lorelai excepted, this is an interesting story about life, love and loss, which feels slightly Americanised despite the London setting. I just wish Joanie had been the main character!