It’s time forPS, I Love Youfans to get out a new box of Kleenex.
Cecelia Ahern, the author of the hit novel , which inspired the 2007 film starring Hilary Swank and Gerard Butler, has finally announced a sequel.
“I have BIG NEWS!” the Irish novelist wrote on Twitter last week. “I’ve written the sequel to PS I LOVE YOU – titled POSTSCRIPT. POSTSCRIPT will be published September 19th in the UK & Ireland. I hope you’ll welcome back Holly… & Gerry…& that reading it will be as emotional for you as it was for me.”
Ahern teased more details in an official statement.
“I’m very excited to share the news that I’ve written the sequel toPS, I Love You,”she said. “It’s been fifteen years since I wrote my debut novel and I relished the challenge of revisiting the world of Holly seven years after her husband’s death.”
Norman Jean Roy/Warner Bros/Kobal/REX/Shutterstock
Ahern continued: “A deeply emotional project for me,Postscriptis the PS to my PS and while it is a sequel, it is also a story that stands alone about living a purposeful life in the face of illness, grief and loss. I hope that new readers andPS, I Love Youfans alike will embrace Holly’s new journey.”
Scheduled to publish first in the U.K. and Ireland in the fall,Postscriptwill release in the U.S. in April 2020. And it’s a sequel that has been long in coming.
But it was the story ofPS, I Love You —both the book and subsequent film — that first moved fans across the globe. The novel explores the love story of Holly and Gerry, which continues even after he dies from a brain tumor. At first lost in her grief, Holly finds her way again after she discovers the 10 letters that Gerry has left for her.
Cecelia Ahern.
She continued: “I know that this thoughtful, deeply emotional sequel will capture hearts all over again.”
source: people.com
