A compulsive love story from a New York Times bestselling author that spins on the consequence of lies and our capacity for resilience

Plt;bPgt;A compulsive love story from a Plt;iPgt;New York TimesPlt;/iPgt; bestselling author that spins on the consequence of lies and our capacity for resilience.Plt;/bPgt;Plt;brPgt;Plt;bPgt;Plt;brPgt;Plt;/bPgt;Plt;bPgt;Plt;iPgt;P#8216;A cancel-your-plans, hold-your-breath, call-your-best-friend kind of book.P#8217; Plt;/iPgt;Amy Jo BurnsPlt;/bPgt; A forbidden love blows open the world of a young woman, altering the trajectory of her life.Plt;brPgt;Plt;brPgt;Postwar America is a time of rigid social rules. But when effervescent, seventeen-year-old Nora moves to Florida, she finds paradiseP#8212;especially after she meets and wins over shy, brilliant Leonard. His mother is welcoming, but his father is suspicious of Nora and her lower-class family.Plt;brPgt; Plt;brPgt;When coerced into breaking off all contact with Leonard, Nora makes a decision that exiles her from the family she loves, and sets off a chain of secrets and betrayals that will follow her for years.Plt;brPgt;Plt;brPgt;Laura MoriartyP#8217;s Plt;iPgt;Sunlight Finds YouPlt;/iPgt; explores ideas about family, female desire, sexism, motherhood and prejudice. ItP#8217;s about our capacity to forgiveP#8212;ourselves and othersP#8212;and about finding happiness by refusing to settle for a life that is less than full.Plt;brPgt;Plt;brPgt;Plt;bPgt;A compelling and warm-hearted love story for readers of Anne PatchettP#8217;s Plt;iPgt;Tom LakePlt;/iPgt; and Patrick RyanP#8217;s Plt;iPgt;BuckeyePlt;/iPgt;.Plt;/bPgt;Plt;brPgt;Plt;brPgt;Plt;brPgt;P#39;Perfectly captures the joy and exquisite pain of first love, and the sacrifices that change our lives forever. I adored it.P#39; Plt;bPgt;Toni JordanPlt;/bPgt;Plt;brPgt;Plt;bPgt;Plt;brPgt;Plt;/bPgt;P#8216;The perfect summer read... Propulsive and drenched in light, just like the title.P#8217;Plt;iPgt; Plt;/iPgt;Plt;bPgt;Jenna Bush HagerPlt;/bPgt;Plt;bPgt;Plt;brPgt;Plt;brPgt;Plt;/bPgt;P#8216;The kind of book that makes you lean closer, then hold your breath as the beauty and betrayal unfold. I couldnP#8217;t stop reading. I couldnP#8217;t stop hoping. What an extraordinary novel!P#8217; Plt;bPgt;Ariel LawhonPlt;/bPgt;Plt;bPgt;Plt;brPgt;Plt;/bPgt;Plt;brPgt;P#8216;Radiant...What begins as a teenage romance in 1950s Florida becomes an intimate, deeply moving story of separation, sacrifice, and self-determinationP#8212;and of how early love shapes the lives we carry forward.P#8217; Plt;bPgt;Christina Baker KlinePlt;/bPgt;

Details

ISBN13: 9781923058996
Format: Paperback / softback
Number of Pages: 352
Edition:
Publication Date: 04 Aug 2026
Publisher: Text Publishing
Publication City, Country: Melbourne, Australia
Dimensions (cm): 23.4(H)x15.6(L)
Weight (gm):

Author Biography

Laura Moriarty is the author of the bestseller Plt;iPgt;The ChaperonePlt;/iPgt; as well asPlt;iPgt; The Center of EverythingPlt;/iPgt;, Plt;iPgt;The Rest of Her LifePlt;/iPgt;, and Plt;iPgt;While IP#8217;m Falling.Plt;/iPgt; She received her masterP#8217;s degree from the University of Kansas and was awarded the George Bennett Fellowship for creative writing at Phillips Exeter Academy. Moriarty lives in Lawrence, Kansas.

Reviews

‘Radiant…What begins as a teenage romance in 1950s Florida becomes an intimate, deeply moving story of separation, sacrifice, and self-determination – and of how early love shapes the lives we carry forward.’ * Christina Baker Kline *
‘A cancel-your-plans, hold-your-breath, call-your-best-friend kind of book.’ * Amy Jo Burns *
‘Illuminates the beguiling power of first love through characters whose teenage choices precipitate lifelong consequences.’ * Sarah McCoy *
‘Sunlight Finds You is a riveting story of young love and battered hope. It’s the kind of book that makes you lean closer, then hold your breath as the beauty and betrayal unfold. I couldn’t stop reading. I couldn’t stop hoping. What an extraordinary novel!’ * Ariel Lawhon, New York Times bestselling author of The Frozen River *
'Laura Moriarty writes with a voice that grabs you from the first page and delights you to the last. Sunlight Finds You is at once captivating, tender, and remarkably attuned to the emotional weather of our time. I love it.’ * Tracey Lien, author of All That’s Left Unsaid *