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Forever
The love story of Colin and Julie who meet before they were born and finally find each other again in life. The author is concerned with mystery, tenderness and fragility and a love that was longer than life and stronger than death.
63 pages, Hardcover
First published June 27, 1935
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January 11, 2009
This is one of my favorite books. I was a broke teenager and had to go to the Bodhi Tree Bookstore in LA three times just so I could stand among the bookshelves and finish reading it.
November 28, 2010
My mother introduced me to this book, and the copy on my bookshelf is inscribed from me to her in 1979. This is a tiny, romantic gem that left an indelible impression on my little head and heart when I plucked it off her bookshelf some time after learning how to read and leaving home in 1966.
May 25, 2022
I just finished reading this again, I think that’s my fourth time. I just love this little gem!!
It’s a very short read, only 63 pages or so, but speaks volumes in those pages.
Such a beautiful thought provoking story 🤗
Another 5⭐️s ✨
It’s a very short read, only 63 pages or so, but speaks volumes in those pages.
Such a beautiful thought provoking story 🤗
Another 5⭐️s ✨
February 6, 2009
This is one of my all time favorite books! The story reinforces the idea that great love is never-ending.
February 19, 2013
One of my favorite books of all time.
May 13, 2013
What a sweet romantic story...endless love!
January 17, 2023
This was a re-read, but I will always love this book. It’s comforting to know things will always work out in a way bigger than yourself. I probably read this book at least once a month since it’s so short lol.
September 2, 2017
i found this among my mother in laws books and I like to think that it must have been one of her favorites, a lovely romance!
August 13, 2022
Bought this pretty little book at an antique shop and ended up really enjoying it! It’s a super short, slightly odd romance story, but stays with you.
December 29, 2017
Uniquely beautiful romance
June 20, 2024
I have a very sentimental fondness for this weird little past life love story.
My mom had the 1970s paperback on her shelves when I was growing up and the cover was also suitably 70s, if misleading: a hazy, gauzy image of a man and a woman snuggled in a field of flowers. You could almost hear Cat Stevens playing in the background.
Mildred Cram wrote Forever in the 1930s, which is surprising because it truly reads like a much more modern story with its talk about life both before and after death. It belongs on the same shelf with New Age romantic books from the 1970s: Richard Bach’s The Bridge Across Forever comes to mind and other novels that promise a spiritual journey. Unlike Bach, Cram’s Forever doesn’t tell us too much about otherworldly concepts. There’s no pontification of spiritual questions: she simply asks us to accept that we hang out somewhere before we are born and come to earth with a vague idea of our pre-life existence, from where we might remember an idea of who we are to become or a beloved soul mate that’s only and uniquely ours.
It’s a simple fairy tale: Colin and Julie meet before they are born, in a Heaven like world. They fall in love, spend long, gauzy days snuggling in flower fields (there’s our book cover!) and talking to the fellow residents of the other side. One day, Julie can’t find Colin because - surprise!- he’s been born to an American family. There’s a kind old general - presumably dead - who tells her not to worry, once she gets to earth, maybe she can find him. Soon enough, she’s born to a family in England.
Hijinks ensue and sad things happen, and there’s a bittersweet ending that reads like Romeo and Juliet meets the characters from Somewhere in Time.
Still, nothing is too bad in Mildred Cram’s world, because it’s (spoiler alert) established on page one that there’s no real death and we are virtually guaranteed a fairy tale happy ending.
My mom had the 1970s paperback on her shelves when I was growing up and the cover was also suitably 70s, if misleading: a hazy, gauzy image of a man and a woman snuggled in a field of flowers. You could almost hear Cat Stevens playing in the background.
Mildred Cram wrote Forever in the 1930s, which is surprising because it truly reads like a much more modern story with its talk about life both before and after death. It belongs on the same shelf with New Age romantic books from the 1970s: Richard Bach’s The Bridge Across Forever comes to mind and other novels that promise a spiritual journey. Unlike Bach, Cram’s Forever doesn’t tell us too much about otherworldly concepts. There’s no pontification of spiritual questions: she simply asks us to accept that we hang out somewhere before we are born and come to earth with a vague idea of our pre-life existence, from where we might remember an idea of who we are to become or a beloved soul mate that’s only and uniquely ours.
It’s a simple fairy tale: Colin and Julie meet before they are born, in a Heaven like world. They fall in love, spend long, gauzy days snuggling in flower fields (there’s our book cover!) and talking to the fellow residents of the other side. One day, Julie can’t find Colin because - surprise!- he’s been born to an American family. There’s a kind old general - presumably dead - who tells her not to worry, once she gets to earth, maybe she can find him. Soon enough, she’s born to a family in England.
Hijinks ensue and sad things happen, and there’s a bittersweet ending that reads like Romeo and Juliet meets the characters from Somewhere in Time.
Still, nothing is too bad in Mildred Cram’s world, because it’s (spoiler alert) established on page one that there’s no real death and we are virtually guaranteed a fairy tale happy ending.
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
February 7, 2015
F.O.R.E.V.E.R by Mildred Cram
The ultimate love story
Absolutely beautiful ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
Top Shelf....this one is a definite keeper!
If you can find a copy, do yourself a favor and read this gem.
September 28, 2016
A sweet little fairy tale of a book; the story feels warm and nostalgic, like a memory you can just barely remember.
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