When You Were Everything by Ashley Woodfolk

'Breathtakingly beautiful.Woodfolk has a way of making words sing and burst with light.' -Tiffany D. Jackson, award-winning author of Monday's Not Coming and Let Me Hear A Rhyme Despite budding friendships with other classmates-and a raging crush on a gorgeous boy named Dom-Cleo's turbulent past with Layla comes back to haunt them both.Īlternating between time lines of Then and Now, When You Were Everything blends past and present into an emotional story about the beauty of self-forgiveness, the promise of new beginnings, and the courage it takes to remain open to love. But pretending Layla doesn't exist isn't as easy as Cleo hoped, especially after she's assigned to be Layla's tutor. Now Cleo wants to erase every memory, good or bad, that tethers her to her ex-best friend. Nearly a month since Cleo realized they'll never be besties again. She wrote her first book, The Beauty That Remains, from a sunny Brooklyn apartment where she lives with her cute husband and her cuter dog. She graduated from Rutgers University with a BA English and currently works in children's book publishing. It's been twenty-seven days since Cleo and Layla's friendship imploded. Ashley Woodfolk has loved reading and writing for as long as she can remember.

You can't rewrite the past, but you can always choose to start again. 'Stunning.' -Nic Stone, bestselling author of Dear Martin and Odd One Out For fans of Nina LaCour's We Are Okay and Adam Silvera's History Is All You Left Me, this heartfelt and ultimately uplifting novel follows one sixteen-year-old girl's friend breakup through two concurrent timelines-ultimately proving that even endings can lead to new beginnings.

When You Were Everything by Ashley Woodfolk