Enjoyed the book very much, and excellent read.
Affairs always get to me, in all marriages you hope it never happens. Here it was hurting three people involved.
Lily getting involved with her boss and having the affair, that started out in her home, and his escaping.
Interesting interaction among characters.

The opening of The Years After You finds us witnessing Lily and her boss Harry making love on the floor of his study in the marital home. When his wife Pippa returns unexpectedly, Lily is forced to escape through the back door. Our introduction to Lily gives a false impression of a selfish, foolish young woman but the unfolding story reveals the truth of her nature.

Lily is in love with Harry, but does not want to wreak his marriage and hurt his two sons. For his part, Harry is over his head captivated by Lily. He is charismatic, successful, works hard but suffers from debilitating back pain. When he witnesses Lily with another man, his mind goes into overdrive with jealousy, even though the encounter is innocent. What follows is tragic, leaving Pippa and Lily to deal with the outcome and the effects on their respective families and how they move on.

A very gentle read although a little non-challenging. My heart went out to Harry, less so to Pippa – although by rights she should have all the sympathy.

Thank you to the author, publishers and NetGalley for providing an ARC via my Kindle in return for an honest review.

Three separate lives affected by an extramarital affair. Sounds familiar? Not so fast. The Years After You is an emotional roller coaster of a book by Emma Woolf that is written in the voice of the three main characters, the husband, Harry; the wife, Pippa; and the lover Lily. Through their perspectives, Woolf provides a fresh perspective of the consequences of infidelity not usually seen in novels. Through these characters, you get to see the internal conflict each has because of the relationship. Adding a layer to Harry's conflict is his struggle with anxiety and depression and how it causes him to make a decision that forever changes the lives of both Pippa and Lily. This book is written so that you'll find yourself not picking sides, and hopefully not making judgments about any of the characters and their decisions. Instead, you will be able to see regular people make a raw, honest life journey and see what it takes to heal.

Thank you for the ARC!
I loved this book. I read it in less than a day. The author wrote beautiful, flawed characters that you couldn’t help loving. The focus on suicide and children growing up without fathers was done in an interesting way that I hadn’t read before. I will definitely be recommending this one.

A bit predictable although different story of an affair and it's effect on all involved. Thanks to author, publisher and Netgalley for the chance to read this book.

Well written and enjoyable read!
The book brought out many emotions for me and I was surprised at how all 3 characters pulled me in.
Definitely worth a read

The Years After You centres around Lily, a young beautiful twenty-something who gains a position at a publishing firm. Within six months she is engaged in a relationship with Harry, one of the senior directors, who happens to be twenty years her senior ..... and married.

Harry is married to Pippa and they have two young sons. Harry tells Lily things haven’t been right in his marriage for a long time. Pippa hasn’t quite figured that out early on and the reader gets her point of view through blog posts that she is writing herself.

Harry, rather than talk about things with his wife, goes to therapy with Dr Christos, thinks very much about himself and his own happiness, with Lily of course, and promptly gives her £150,000 to buy a new flat. He assumes she will want to live with him once he leaves Pippa and his children of course,

Lily accepts the money, and buys the flat but tells herself she doesn’t want to be that one mistress who wrecks someone’s marriage. She subsequently gets cold feet when Harry starts becoming unhinged. He’s drinking heavily, self medicating with prescription drugs, and sliding deeper into Depression (of which he has a history).

When things go awry between Lily and Harry (briefly) Harry commits suicide and Lily and Pippa are left to pick up the pieces of their lives. Lily relies on her three siblings and her mother. She doesn’t know her father as he left the family when she was young. Pippa continues to feel angry about her lot in life (understandably) and remains bitter towards Lily,

Lily discovers she is pregnant and the remainder of the book is written from Lily’s point of view. Grief, loss, mothering, growing up without a father and then locating him - the reader walks through this with Lily. There’s an occasional blog post from Pippa to keep the reader updated.

This book is 162 pages long so it’s not hefty. It does deal with some hard-hitting issues in a short space of time - such as familial breakdowns, Depression, suicide, loss and grief. It probably should contain a trigger warning for some people.

I struggled with Lily. I didn’t really ‘like’ her and felt she was incredibly one-dimensional, self-centred and indulgent. Maybe my middle-aged woman bias creeping in,? She grew on me as the book matured, and I’m thinking maybe Lily as a character did too? She was definitely more likeable as a result of the relationships that were observed with other characters - her siblings, her father and step-mother, Julian, and her neighbour. I just couldn’t shake the sense that Lily was about what was in her best interests, all the time. She also didn’t seem to have any real friends other than her sisters.

Don’t get me wrong - I enjoyed this book and ploughed through it. It’s a great ‘summer read’. (Even though it’s winter here)! Readers who can stomach Lily will love this book as there is a love story in there, and themes of renewed relationships and healing.

I tended towards 4 stars with this one though it’s not quite there.

Publish date 10 September 2019.

Thanks you Netgalley, Emma Woolf, and Amberjack Publishing for this eARC in exchange for an honest review.

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This is a beautiful story and an easy read. Lily is a 30 year old single woman who is seeing a married man, her boss Harry. She is getting in over her head. Most of the C0-Workers suspect about the affair. His wife, Pippa, suspects he is having an affair. Harry became very jealous when Lily saw and ex-boyfriend and thought she would leave him. The book addressed how it effected all 3 lives and their families. The book also talks about the years after the affair and how they continued in life. Very easy read and highly recommend it. Very Enjoyable.

This was a really insightful read. I was apprehensive at first - I figured it would be tough for me to like the main characters knowing they were engaging in an affair. But this was one of the most honest portrayals of WHY people cheat, why they sometimes leave, why they sometimes stay, that I have ever seen or read. I was surprised to find myself totally invested in each of the three main characters' stories. This book, for me, stands apart from others about adultery because it's not actually about adultery; it's about deeply personal, human relationships and how our flaws impact these relationships with others and ourselves.

This book had me feeling so many feelings! Sad, happy, angry...even laughter at times. It was an emotional and well written. I easily connected to the characters and found myself reading late into the night, just to see what was going to happen next.

When Lily finds herself romantically involved with her "married" boss Harry, she knows she is getting in over her head. She tries to keep things as "uncomplicated" as she "hopes" is possible under the circumstances, but Harry, can not be without her. He becomes obsessed with Lily. Meanwhile, Harry's wife, Pippa, discovers Harry's affair, but her love and faith in her husband leads her to believe that it is just a "phase", a "mid-life crisis", so she leaves it be, hoping it will resolve itself. Harry believes he could handle the situation, he was always so strong. But the pressure on Harry is more then he could handle, and he makes some drastic decisions. The ramifications of Harry's affair not only affect Lily and Pippa,( and Pippa's kids), but also their extended families, and everyone around them.

I don't want to have spoilers, but The Years After You is about loss, recovery from loss, and the role of friends and family for support during the stressful times. Emma Woolf describes the consequences of adultery on Lily and Pippa, each through their own eyes, which I really appreciated. Overall, it is a very relevant and topical book that I highly recommend. Thank You #netgalley for letting me read #theyearsafteryou by @emmawoolf1. 5 stars!

Told from 3 perspectives, this book is engaging and surprising. Do yourself a favor and put it on your “must read” list; you won’t be disappointed.

A book about 2 women and 1 man. The part with Henry in it was little but the book was more how the two women coped and lived with afterwards, well mostly how his girlfriend lived. I liked how the division of the women was done in italic and the other font. Easy read, good story.

Thanks NetGalley for this ARC.

Thanks to Amberjack Publishing, NetGalley and the author, Emma Woolf, for my early read of this book.

The book is about all 3 sides of an affair, and how it affects all 3 parties involved. Lily has been in a relationship with her married boss for quite awhile, before the wife, Pippa, finds out about the affair. The office knows about the relationship, and those who don't know for sure, suspect they are having an affair, and Lily's family knows about her affair, however the wife doesn't find out for sure until it's been going on for quite a while.

The book truly shows all 3 sides of the affair and how it literally tears about his family, and then also causes a rift between him and his mistress. It's easy to connect with each of the characters, however I truly resonated with the wife, and really enjoyed her parts of the book more than the others. I could feel her heartache and pain through the writing and portions of the book about the wife.

This was a quick read and I did enjoy it.

A great book! Something fascinating to curl up with on a rainy evening, holding a cup of tea... The characters are believable and realistic. Kudos to the writer!

This book left me feeling kind of meh. Felt bad for the wife, and there was not lot of relating to the characters, especially the ones involved in the affair. Not a lot of sympathy from me. Did not hold my attention well at all.

Lily is about 30, in love with a coworker who is married and conflicted. Harry is infatuated with Lily, not so much in love with his wife anymore, but loves his 2 boys. Lily doesn't want him to leave his family as then she'd feel guilty. Lily's coworkers have fallen by the wayside as they saw the relationship take root. Pippa the wife has suspicions, but first doesn't believe them, then wonders if she should choose to ignore it hoping Harry will get it out of his system. That does not happen.

The novel explores a lot of issues that are intertwined such as affairs by single young women with older married men, father figures and missing fathers and how Lily's past, growing up without a father, might have an influence on her decision to not have Harry leave his children. Spoiler alert: The issue of suicide is raised in different settings and how the aftermath affects families for years to come.

Well done, believable characters. I enjoyed this book and this author. Thank you NetGalley for an advance reader copy in exchange for an honest review.

An involving read a book that drew me in to the complications of relationships of marriage affairs .A book that has so many layers emotions a book that draws you in to the characters lives.Highly recommend.#netgalley #amberjackpublishing.

I received an ARC of this book thanks to Net Galley and publisher Amberjack Publishing in exchange for an honest review.

This book is absolutely not my usual genre but I read an excerpt of it in the Buzz Books of 2019: Fall/Winter edition and I was intrigued enough to request the full ARC. The Years After You is a book about two women linked by one man: his wife and the woman he is having an affair with. That is in essence the entire plot and I can't really say much more without giving stuff away. It is told in dual perspectives from both women's POV, though the bulk of the focus is on Lily's POV who is the mistress in this scenario.

I was surprised by how much I enjoyed reading this story. Lily as a character was very well-written and I liked and identified with her a lot. Pippa's (the wife) part of the story was less important and while I could see why it was included, her passages almost peter out entirely towards the end.

SPOILERS BELOW.

I do think there was a missed opportunity in not having the two meet and have a conversation about Harry. The ending was poignant but also it would have added a bit more depth if they had been able to share their grief. Instead this moment was done silently which resulted in less of an impact in my opinion.

END OF SPOILERS.

.Harry was a bit of an unusual character and I think again, the story would have benefited from Pippa's sections being expanded upon as then we would have got more of a detailed idea of who he was as a person seeing more of him from a different perspective.

Overall, this was a very solid slice of life contemporary story. It has a bit more depth than your usual fluffy contemporary and the pacing and characterisation are all done very well. There could be a little more expansion in certain areas but this is worth checking out if you like more serious contemporary romances.

Overall Rating: 3/5

This book, while it may seem like a predictable storyline, is anything but. I feel like the way the relationships were navigated were superb and so interesting to read. It takes the traditional affair storyline and twists it with new struggles and battles. I found myself identifying with each character at different times, wanting conflicting futures to pan out. It was a great read and I will definitely be recommending this to friends.