Notebook, The - Nicholas Sparks - MgDnA

The story in centered around Noah and Allie, and the film follows them during three periods in their life together; when they first meet and fall in love as teenagers, when they are reunited in their thirties and when they are old and nearing the end of their lives. The old Allie and Noah form the frame around the earlier stories; Allie has grown ill with Alzheimer's and Noah reads to her from her old notebook of their youth together. Though she has grown confused and no longer recognises Noah, the story from the notebook is sometimes able to penetrate the haze of her memory and bring her back to him for a short time.
The most noticable difference between the film and the book is that the book says very little about the teenage Noah and Allie, and uses a couple of pages to summarise what takes over a third of the film to describe. I'm glad the film fleshed out this part of the story, as it makes the other parts of the tale much more powerful when you have a good sense of what came before.