Joy — Samantha Leigh

Joy is a contemporary coming-of-age novel revolving around two women who shared an intense whirlwind romance as teenagers. Now, knee deep in their twenties, they are both navigating their separate lives.

Joy, in London with her husband, is dissatisfied with her materialistic lifestyle. Erica, an artist in their hometown of Liverpool, is stuck thinking about the past whilst living with a girlfriend who can’t stop getting fake tan on the bed sheets.

When circumstance brings Joy back home, the pair are faced with everything that was left unsaid, and the chance to risk it all to be together again. What happens when the one that got away comes back?