'Addictive… Try The One & Only if you heart rom-coms and football.' -Brides 'Giffin has scored another bestseller with this newest contemporary novel …which centers on a woman… who suddenly begins to doubt her life and the choices she made after a tragedy occurs.' -Christian Science Monitor 'A poignant, entertaining novel.' -People

'Each and every page of this story is entertaining… Giffin is a talented writer who always comes up with a plot that is just a bit different than anything others are writing about… Find a shady spot get a cool drink, and just luxuriate in the joy of a book well written.' -The Huffington Post the one and only thing that truly makes life worth living. Thoughtful, funny, and brilliantly observed, The One and Only is a luminous novel about finding your passion, following your heart, and, most of all, believing in something bigger than yourself. As she finally gives up her safety net to set out on an unexpected path, Shea discovers unsettling truths about the people and things she has always trusted most-and is forced to confront her deepest desires, fears, and secrets. Instead she stayed in Walker for college, even taking a job in the university athletic department after graduation, where she has remained for more than a decade.īut when an unexpected tragedy strikes the tight-knit Walker community, Shea’s comfortable world is upended, and she begins to wonder if the life she’s chosen is really enough for her. Raised alongside her best friend, Lucy, the daughter of Walker’s legendary head coach, Clive Carr, Shea was too devoted to her hometown team to leave.

Thirty-three-year-old Shea Rigsby has spent her entire life in Walker, Texas-a small college town that lives and dies by football, a passion she unabashedly shares.

In her eagerly awaited new novel, beloved New York Times bestselling author Emily Giffin returns with an extraordinary story of love and loyalty-and an unconventional heroine struggling to reconcile both.

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