A Walk To Remember

By Nicholas Sparks

This is a really lovely and beautiful love story, of love that is ever-lasting.

Landon Carter is a rich, handsome and popular with just about everyone at his high school in Beaufort, North Carolina. Jamie Sullivan is a sensitive outcast, misunderstood, unpopular, lonely and shy. Raised by a poor southern Baptist reverend and overlooked by everyone.

When Landon has to decide to take Chemistry or Drama, he signs up for Drama. He ends up with the leading role in the spring play in which Jamie ends up with the female leading role. The Homecoming Dance is getting closer and Landon, just having broken up with his girlfriend, has no date for the dance. An interesting sequence of events causes Landon to ask Jamie to the dance, upon which Jamie tells Landon not to fall in love with her, something he thinks he will have no problem with.

After seeing Jamie on the stage, Landon realises he has fallen head over heels for her. Not long after Jamie reveals that she has leukaemia and is going to die. This news both devastated and scares Landon. He spends as much time with her as he can and they both fall in love with each other. Their love continues to grow as they struggle with their own feelings and the reality of disease.

Jamie tells Landon that she wants to be married before she dies and Landon surprises her by proposing to her, and she accepts. Landon learns what life is really about and even after Jamie’s death; he is still very much in love with her.