“What was it, Evie wondered, that made some people fit for a love like that, and left other people wanting? Was love like a radio signal, and you just had to be lucky enough to be born with your heart’s dials tuned to the right frequency? Or was it something that could only happen to you when you were young and fearless?”
For all intents and purposes, they shouldn’t have worked. Diana Clare was a famous concert pianist, even at 25, and had traveled the world, playing music in some of the most famous locations. Arie Johnson was an IT specialist at the music conservatory where Diana practiced. And yet the day after he set up her passwords, she asked him to lunch, and the rest, they say, is history.
Seven years later, they are engaged and they can’t imagine life without one another. But Arie wants marriage and a family, and Diana isn’t sure she wants those things, but she knows she can’t lose Arie. So she writes him a love song, although she doesn’t get to finish it until she’s on another world tour, but he hears her playing some of it before she leaves.
And in the midst of the tour, tragedy strikes, and Arie is left without Diana. He’s not sure how he’ll cope.
Meanwhile, Diana’s song finds its way through the world. One day, Evie, a young Australian woman who has never really put roots down, decides to head back to Australia and then she hears this unknown melody. It haunts her, but can it help her find the elusive things she has always wanted—true love and a home?
Like many love stories, The Lost Love Song is beautiful, moving, funny, and a little bit hokey at times. (There are some plot twists which seem a little too convenient.) Sometimes the book felt a little like it’s wandering off course. (For me, those “interludes” might all make wonderful books of their own.)
But I found myself fully immersed in this book, loving these characters, wishing I could hear the song, and, of course, crying at the end. (Hey, I’m an emotional guy.)
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