After you
Record details
- ISBN: 9780385341240
- ISBN: 0385341245 :
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Physical Description:
340 p. ; 25 cm.
print - Edition: 1st ed.
- Publisher: New York : Dial Press, c2009.
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Subject: | Life change events Fiction Grief Fiction Best friends Fiction Americans Fiction Murder victims' families Fiction |
Genre: | Psychological fiction. |
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Independence Branch | BUXBA J (Text) | 33126011254491 | Core Collection | Available | - |
- Baker & Taylor
Rushing to assist the family of her murdered best friend, Ellie consoles reclusive widower Greg and nurtures eight-year-old Lucy, who has stopped speaking, by readingThe Secret Garden to the child, a situation that is complicated by painful discoveries. By the author of The Opposite of Love. - Baker & Taylor
Rushing to assist the family of her murdered best friend, Ellie consoles reclusive widower Greg and nurtures eight-year-old Lucy, who has stopped speaking. - Blackwell North Amer
It happened on a tree-lined street in Notting Hill to a woman who seemed to have the perfect life. Ellie Lerner's best friend, Lucy, was murdered in front of her young daughter. And, as best friends do, Ellie dropped everything - her marriage, her job, her life in the Boston suburbs - to travel to London and pick up the pieces of Lucy's life. While husband, Greg, copes with his grief by retreating into himself, eight-year-old Sophie has simply stopped speaking.
Desperate to help Sophie, Ellie turns to a book that gave her comfort as a child, The Secret Garden. As the two spend hours exploring the novel's winding passageways, its story of hurt, magic, and healing blooms around them. But so, too, do Lucy's secrets - some big, some small - secrets Lucy kept hidden even from her best friend. Over a summer in London, as Ellie peels back the layers of her friend's life, she's forced to confront her own as well: the marriage she left behind, the loss she'd hoped to escape. And suddenly Ellie's carefully constructed existence is spinning out of control in a chain of events that will transform her life - and the lives of those around her - forever. - Random House, Inc.
The complexities of a friendship. The unexplored doubts of a marriage. And the redemptive power of literature...Julie Buxbaum, the acclaimed author of The Opposite of Love, delivers a haunting, gloriously written novel about love, family, and the secrets we hide from each otherâand ourselves.
It happened on a tree-lined street in Notting Hill to a woman who seemed to have the perfect life. Ellie Lernerâs best friend, Lucy, was murdered in front of her young daughter. And, as best friends do, Ellie dropped everythingâher marriage, her job, her life in the Boston suburbsâto travel to London and pick up the pieces of Lucyâs life. While Lucyâs husband, Greg, copes with his grief by retreating into himself, eight-year-old Sophie has simply stopped speaking.
Desperate to help Sophie, Ellie turns to a book that gave her comfort as a child, The Secret Garden. As the two spend hours exploring the novelâs winding passageways, its story of hurt, magic, and healing blooms around them. But so, too, do Lucyâs secretsâsome big, some smallâsecrets Lucy kept hidden, even from her best friend. Over a summer in London, as Ellie peels back the layers of her friendâs life, sheâs forced to confront her own as well: the marriage she left behind, the loss sheâd hoped to escape. And suddenly Ellieâs carefully constructed existence is spinning out of control in a chain of events that will transform her lifeâand those around herâ forever. A novel that will resonate in the heart of anyone whoâs had a best friend, a love lost, or a past full of regrets, After You proves once again the unique and compelling talent of Julie Buxbaum.