It really seems as though they can make this work, and then tragedy touches their lives. The couple have to deal with grief and loss, and serious illness, along with maintaining their daily lives. Gus struggles and Tess becomes much more than a lover, she’s the person who is there constantly, despite his moods, his unexpected behaviour and his change in personality. My son has always loved dancing too. As a child, he trained with the Royal Ballet School and competed in the ballroom and Latin team at university. The first thing he did, after we’d told a few close friends and family my news, was book ourselves into a tea dance at the Floral Hall in Covent Garden. However, it is Gus that has to face the biggest loss, and at times the reader is not sure that he is going to make it through.

I admire the dancers’ almost superhuman physical skills, the precision, the bravery, the technique, but it is the artistry of combining these with music and storytelling, that transports me to a place where I feel emotions more strongly and see beauty more clearly. For me, watching ballet is like getting a shot of pure happiness. Kate Eberlen has gone beyond the initial star crossed romance of Tess and Gus to explore the lasting nature of relationships with her characteristic sensitivity, perception and humour in this inspirational book’ Martha Kearney The day I consented to aggressive chemotherapy, where the consultant had scrawled ‘death’ as a possible side effect, became one of the best days of my life. After emerging dazed from the oncologist appointment, I dashed across London to get to the opening night of Carlos Acosta’s Don Quixote at the Royal Opera House. It is the sunniest of productions and my two favourite principal dancers, Marianela Nunez and Vadim Muntagirov, were performing. They were simply sensational and the whole company was on terrific form. This was my idea of heaven. For my new novel ONLY YOU, I was incredibly fortunate to spend 5 months living glorious, sun-drenched Rome. The novel is inspired by my interest in the Italian language and classical literature, but also by my passion for dance. I enjoy all forms of dance from ballet to ballroom and I think the exhilaration of dancing is very close to the wonderful excitement of falling in love.Alternating between the perspectives of Tess and Gus, the novel explores the conflicts and challenges of new love and old loyalties, passion and duty, logic and belief, with readers racing to find out if the couple can or can’t be together.

In Ever After, Kate Eberlen re-introduces her characters Tess and Gus who we first met in her 2016 novel ‘Miss You’. A captivating story about love...at times heartbreaking and at others uplifting... and an ending that is as poignant as it is perfect. I really loved it' Clare SwatmanEver After is described by the publisher as the compelling story of two strangers falling head-over-heels in love on holiday in Italy and what happens after they return to the reality of their day-to-day lives in London. Publisher Sam Eades signed the two-book deal for world English rights with Mark Lucas at The Soho Agency. Lucas is also handling translation and screen rights and US rights are being handled by Jessica Purdue at Orion Books. Populated with a cast of colourful and loveable characters, from Tess’s friend Nash to young Bella and with wonderful descriptions of both Italy and London, this is another story to savour from a wonderfully talented author.