Seventeen year old Veronica "Ronnie" Miller's life was turned upside-down when her parents divorced and her father moved from New York City to Wrightsville Beach, North Carolina. Three years later, she remains angry and alientated from her parents, especially her father...until her mother decides it would be in everyone's best interest if she spent the summer in Wilmington with him. Ronnie's father, a former concert pianist and teacher, is living a quiet life in the beach town, immersed in creating a work of art that will become the centerpiece of a local church.

The tale that unfolds is an unforgettable story of love on many levels--first love, love between parents and children -- that demonstrates, as only a Nicholas Sparks novel can, the many ways that love can break our hearts...and heal them.

　　故事发生在美国北卡罗莱娜的一个海边小镇，格里格·金尼尔扮演的斯蒂夫因为醉心钢琴演奏在3年前和妻子金（凯莉·普莱斯顿）离婚搬到了这里，他们的女儿罗尼（麦莉·赛勒斯）认为父亲毁掉了整个家庭，因此对他充满怨气，从来不和他联系。由于斯蒂夫患上了胃癌，只有几个月的生命了，金强迫不知情的罗尼带着她10岁的弟弟去和父亲度暑假，不情愿的罗尼虽然去了，但仍不能原谅父亲，处处和他对抗。斯蒂夫只能通过音乐这种两人之间共同的语言来重新与女儿沟通，而罗尼在这个海边小镇也找到了一份夏日的恋情。

作者简介

Nicholas Sparks is one of the world's most beloved storytellers. All of his books have been New York Times bestsellers, with nearly 80 million copies in print worldwide, in over 45 languages, including over 50 million copies in the United States alone, and his popularity continues to soar.
Sparks wrote one of his best-known stories, The Notebook, over a period of six months at age 28. It was published in 1996 by Warner Books. He followed with the novels Message in a Bottle (1998), A Walk to Remember (1999), The Rescue (2000), A Bend in the Road (2001), Nights in Rodanthe (2002), The Guardian (2003), The Wedding (2003), True Believer (2005) and its sequel, At First Sight (2005), Dear John (2006), The Choice (2007), The Lucky One (2008), The Last Song (2009), Safe Haven (2010) and The Best of Me (2011), as well as the 2004 non-fiction memoir Three Weeks With My Brother, co-written with his brother Micah.

　　尼古拉斯·斯帕克思（NichoIas Sparks），美国著名畅销作家，著有多本小说，作品被翻译超过35种语言、全球销量超过四千五百万册！他与《哈利波特》系列作者J.K.罗琳，是仅有的两位同时有精装和平装作品在纽约时报排行榜上停留超过一年的作者。他被称为美国“纯爱小说教父”、“纯爱小说天王”、“催泪弹”。