Had To Be You
Release Date: 08/05/14
Swoon Romance
Summary from Goodreads:
After college, Rory Finn left behind the familiarity
of her quiet, picturesque hometown to pursue a professional career in the city.
With her sights firmly on the future, Rory pressed on in hopes of forgetting
the past until a jarring bit of unwelcome news forces her to confront it.
Her first love, the one she'd tried so hard to
forget, is about to marry someone else. That pang Rory feels isn't envy, it's
not even regret. It's love. But Rory can't be that girl. She won't. But if she
doesn't, she'll never know what could have been. She'll never have another
chance to tell him how she feels.
As she embarks on an impulsive, desperate bid to win
him back, her mission turns into an unexpected and emotional journey of
rediscovery. HAD TO BE YOU explores a history of love from its tentative
beginnings to what may just turn out to be its final bittersweet end, as Rory
ignores her head and follows her heart.
DREAM CAST
HAD
TO BE YOU
Juliet Chatham
Every story I write
plays like a film in my head, and since so much of my inspiration over the
years has come from rewriting my favorite television shows and movies to my
liking, picking a dream cast for HAD TO BE YOU was … er, well, like a dream
come true!
There was never any
question in my mind as to who should play MATT O’SHEA, and I’m sure anyone who
knows me will know this: It had to be
Joshua Jackson. (See what I did there?) Of course, some might be quick to point
out that Josh Jackson may be a little too old to play the part. Doesn’t matter—it
will always be Josh, at 16 or at 24, whatever age is called for. It’s like that
scene in Love Actually, where Emma
Thompson’s character is talking about being a fan of Joni Mitchell? “I love her, and true love lasts a
lifetime.” (Only in my case, it would be him.)
The character of RORY
FINN, however, was surprisingly much more difficult for me. I always had a very
specific look for her in my mind, but not a specific actress. As you may have
already suspected from my previous answer, I have an abiding love for teen
dramas of the nineties. So, I think my inspiration for Rory varied between Felicity
Porter (Felicity), Julia Salinger (Party of Five), Joey Potter (Dawson’s Creek) and Rory Gilmore (Gilmore Girls)—though, interestingly or
uninterestingly enough, not why I
chose the name. This was in characterization and motivation, however, not
outward appearance. Then, when I was having fun making some book teasers, I
kept landing on different photos of girls who looked just as I pictured her. It
turns out the photos were all the same person, a model named Barbara Palvin. Now
she’s stuck in my head as Rory. (As much as it hurts my film geek heart not to
choose the latest indie darling, at least she had a part in Hercules, so we can kind of call her an
actress, too.)
The rest of the cast
would be as follows (again, ages may vary, but humor me):
KEVIN
Logan
Lerman
DANNY
Henry
Cavill
JONATHAN Colin
O’Donoghue
LUKE Garrett
Hedlund
MURPH Chris
Pratt
TREVOR Scott
Eastwood
JILL Brie
Larson
CASEY Margot
Robbie
LINDSAY Aimee
Teegarden
AMANDA Jaimie
Alexander
A lifelong New Englander, I divide my time between
the North Shore and Cape Cod. My favorite things are beaches, boats, books,
bars, the Boston Red Sox and boys, but not necessarily in that order.
Consequently, you’ll probably find that these are the things I write about,
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