The One That Got Away

A Novel

By: Charlotte Rixon

Narrated by: Carl Prekopp, Katherine Press

A sweeping, poignant novel spanning two decades, about first love, first heartbreak, and the ones we never forget, for listeners of Jill Santopolo, Rosie Walsh, and Colleen Hoover.

Two years together.

Twenty years apart.

One day to change their story.

2000. Benjamin’s world is turned upside down the night he meets Clara. Instinctively, he knows that they are meant for each other, but a devastating mistake on their last night at university will take their lives in very different directions.

20 years later, Clara has a high-profile job and a handsome husband. But despite the trappings of success, she isn't happy, and she knows that a piece of her heart still belongs to Benjamin, the boy she fell in love with years earlier. The boy whose life she fears she ruined.

When a bombing is reported in the city where they first met, Clara is pulled back to a place she tries not to remember and the first love she could never forget. Searching for Benjamin, Clara is forced to confront the events that tore them apart. But is it too late to put right what went wrong?

Across the miles and spanning decades, Charlotte Rixon's The One That Got Away is a sweeping, poignant story about growing up, growing apart, the people who first steal our hearts, and the surprising, winding roads that love can take us on.

A Macmillan Audio production from St. Martin’s Press.

©2022 Charlotte Rixon (P)2022 Macmillan Audio

Critic reviews

"A poignant and gripping second chance romance...this evocative portrait of first love reunited tugs at the heartstrings."–Publishers Weekly

"Charlotte Rixon’s The One That Got Away is the kind of book I’m always searching for. It’s a stunning love story that had my heart racing from the first chapter and tears streaming down my face by the end. An instant favorite."–Carley Fortune, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Meet Me at the Lake

"Utterly mesmerizing. This achingly real and beautiful story of first love is absolutely riveting."–Kristan Higgins, New York Times bestselling author of Out of the Clear Blue Sky

Couldn't stop listening!!!!

Loved this story, it had all the feels, and it ended better than I had expected!!

Great love story

I loved this story…and would love to see another book about their life together!