Hoover also opened up about the public response to It Ends With Us. I hope readers take away that people deserve respect in relationships. So she texted me and said that for 35 years she wondered if she had made the right choice by leaving him. Hoover continued, “She called after she finished it. I fashioned the main characters, Lily and Ryle, after them, and the first time he hits her is actually what happened between my parents.” The author’s note at the end explains how the story related to my parents. “The book was based on her relationship with my father she divorced him when I was about two years old. “I was inspired by my mother to write it,” Hoover says. In an interview with Publishers Weekly in 2017, Hoover explained that It Ends With Us was based on the relationship between her mother and father. When Atlas suddenly reappears, everything Lily has built with Ryle is threatened,” the book’s description reads. He was her kindred spirit, her protector. As questions about her new relationship overwhelm her, so do thoughts of Atlas Corrigan - her first love and a link to the past she left behind. “Even as Lily finds herself becoming the exception to his ‘no dating’ rule, she can’t help but wonder what made him that way in the first place.

The book follows Lily Bloom, a college graduate who moves to Boston, where she meets handsome neurosurgeon, Ryle Kincaid, and reconnects with her old boyfriend and first love, Atlas Corrigan. It Ends With Us, which was published in August 2016, is an adult fiction novel by Colleen Hoover, who has also written best-selling titles like Verity, Ugly Love, All Your Perfects and Reminders of Him. Since the It Ends With Us film was announced, readers and BookTok followers have been desperate to who’s in the It Ends With Us cast and which actors will play Lily, Ryle, Atlas and more characters in Colleen Hoover’s book adaptation.

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