When an agent is going through an estate preparing for a sale, he runs across an album filled with postcards, on each of which is a short love poem. He realizes there's a card sent each week for over half a century. His curiosity leads him to the couple's housekeeper's daughter and the unraveling of this life-long romance.
Gabe and Pearl meet randomly, and instantly fall in love. They build a life filled with romance together, sharing in and overcoming adversity but mostly just growing old together, deeply in love. Early in their marriage, Gabe commits to sending Pearl a postcard every Friday, and sure enough he does. Adam, the estate agent, tells their story, intermingled with his own romance with the housekeeper's daughter.
Of course, the story is pretty sappy. If you're a fan of Nicholas Sparks's stories, Forever Friday will be right up your alley. But lest you think it's far-fetched to imagine someone sending his wife a love poem on a postcard every Friday for sixty years, Lewis says the inspiration for the idea came from his great-uncle, who did send Lewis's great-aunt a poem on a post card every year for sixty years!
Finally, this novel is published by a Christian press, but the Christian content is rather thin. Other than allusions to prayer, off-hand mentions of church attendance, and recurring appearances by a possible angel, the story makes little mention of Gabe and Pearl's faith or how it inspires their lives and romance. I don't say that as a criticism, just an observation for readers.
I have no plans to start sending my wife a postcard every week, but reading about Gabe and Pearl's romance did inspire me to focus more on her and think about romancing her. Forever Friday is a sweet story for the romantic in you.
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