The Notebook

Nicholas Sparks · first published 1996 · ISBN 9780446676090

A young man of humble means falls in love with a woman from wealth and privilege in a small North Carolina town. When her parents separate them, he pours his heart into a notebook of their story, which he reads to his wife decades later as they navigate the final chapters of their lives. The novel braids together two timelines: their passionate romance in 1940 and their reunion in old age, testing whether love endures when everything else changes.