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A Novel
Atlantic Monthly Press
January 2008
On Sale: December 21, 2007
320 pages
ISBN: 0871139774
EAN: 9780871139771
Hardcover
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The new novel from the award-winning author of Deafening is
a poignant exploration of one eighty-year-old life, as its
heroine lies at the bottom of a ravine where she has crashed
en route to visit the queen. Born the same day as Her
Majesty, Queen Elizabeth II, Canadian Georgina Danforth
Witley is one of ninety-nine privileged Commonwealth
subjects invited to an eightieth birthday lunch at
Buckingham Palace. All she has to do is drive to the airport
and board the plane for London. Except that Georgie drives
off the road, her car plunging into a thickly wooded ravine.
Thrown from the car and unable to move, she must rely on her
no-nonsense wit, her full store of family memories, and a
recitation of the bones in her body—a childhood exercise
that reminds her she is still alive. As Georgina lies
helpless, she reflects on her role as a daughter, mother,
sister, wife, and widow—on lost loves and painful
secrets—offering a whimsical and profound insight into the
life of one ordinary woman who, while drawing on her
instincts to survive, asks herself: what has it all amounted to?
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