Wish to Get Old with You – Paperback

Rory Hale is a man who goes quiet.

At twenty-two, sheltering under a bridge in the rain, he promises the girl he loves that he will fight for her. And then, when her family steers her toward a safer match, he says nothing – and spends the next ten years making sure nothing will ever matter enough to be lost again.

A sensible, loveless marriage. A son he adores and quietly fails. And then, half a world away in a city he never meant to love, a woman named Sophie – who sees the frightened man behind the careful one, and waits.

Spanning fifty years and three generations, Wish to Get Old with You is the story of a quiet man’s lifelong failure to choose, and the late, hard-won courage that almost comes too late. It is a novel about marriage and divorce, fathers and sons, the cost of patience and the price of fear – and the question that haunts every page: can you build a life with someone without breaking someone else, and can you learn to arrive before the people who love you stop waiting?

A tender, clear-eyed saga about second chances, the family we assemble from our mistakes, and the courage it takes to grow old with the one you love.