Book description
It would always be summer on the island...
A love story with a twist, Tracey Garvis Graves' On The
Island is a US word-of-mouth success story to rival Fifty
Shades of Grey, with 1500 5* reader reviews online (and
counting!) and sales taking it top 10 in the New York Times,
Wall Street Journal and Amazon. com bestseller lists. Film
rights have been optioned by MGM, with Temple Hill Productions
(responsible for Twilight) slated to produce.
When thirty-year-old English teacher Anna Emerson is offered a
summer job tutoring T. J. Callahan at his family's holiday home in the
Maldives, she accepts without hesitation: a tropical island beats the
library any day.
T. J. has no desire to leave town, not that anyone asked him. He's
almost seventeen and if having had cancer wasn't bad enough, he now
has to spend his first summer in remission with his family instead of
his friends.
Anna and T. J. are en route to join T. J.'s family in the Maldives
when the pilot of their seaplane suffers a fatal heart attack and
crash-lands in the Indian Ocean. Marooned on an uninhabited island,
Anna and T. J. work together to obtain water, food, fire and shelter
but, as the days turn to weeks then months and finally years, Anna
begins to wonder if the biggest challenge of all might be living with
a boy who is gradually becoming a man...
As romantic as One Day or The Time Traveler's Wife, US
readers have fallen in love with Tracey Garvis-Graves' On the Island:
'If you're looking for something to fill the gap after reading
Fifty Shades...here it is!' ***** Danielle
'I couldn't put this down. I rooted for this couple from the
beginning' ***** Kelkeligan
'A bit Castaway, Survivor and Lost all rolled
together, the minute I opened the book, I read till it was finished'
***** Michele
'I loved, loved, loved this. It was a perfect way to spend a cold
Friday night stuck at home' ***** Kelly
Tracey Garvis-Graves lives in a suburb of Des Moines, Iowa, with her
husband and two children and blogs at www. traceygarvisgraves. com.
Tracey Garvis Graves lives in a suburb of Des Moines, Iowa, with her
husband and two children. She blogs at www. traceygarvisgraves. com, and
can also be found on Twitter @tgarvisgraves and at facebook.
com/tgarvisgraves. This is her first novel.
