Author Laura Dockrill didn’t act on her teenage love until many years later — a story she uses as the basis for her new novel Laura Dockrill. Photo: Órfhlaith Whelan Everyone has a One That Got Away. But at the risk of sounding too Hallmark Channel, what happens when your One That Got Away eventually turns out to be The One? It’s precisely what happened with Laura Dockrill, who met her husband Hugo White when they were both 14, in the summer of 2000.
The pair met up at various house parties — house parties being a teenage social mainstay — and Dockrill recalls her heart “skipping a beat” when she first set eyes on him. Tentatively, the two began writing letters and making mixtapes for each other, and were soon living in each other’s pockets..