Random Harvest is a novel written by James Hilton, first published in 1941. Like previous Hilton works, including Lost Horizon and Goodbye, Mr. Chips, the novel was immensely popular, placing second on Publishers Weekly list of best-selling novels for the year, and it was published as an Armed Services Edition during the Second World War. No. 1 on The New York Times Fiction best seller list for 10 weeks, from the issue of February 17, 1941. Wiki link