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The complexities of a friendship. The unexplored doubts of a marriage. And the redemptive power of literature...
The Dial Press
September 2009
On Sale: August 25, 2009
Featuring: Ellie Lerner; Lucy
352 pages
ISBN: 0385341245
EAN: 9780385341240
Hardcover
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Young Adult Contemporary
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 otherβand ourselves. It happened on a tree-lined street in Notting Hill to a woman who seemed to have the perfect life. Ellie Lernerβs best friend, Lucy, was murdered in front of her young daughter. And, as best friends do, Ellie dropped everythingβher marriage, her job, her life in the Boston suburbsβto travel to London and pick up the pieces of Lucyβs life. While Lucyβs 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 novelβs winding passageways, its story of hurt, magic, and healing blooms around them. But so, too, do Lucyβs secretsβ some big, some smallβsecrets Lucy kept hidden, even from her best friend. Over a summer in London, as Ellie peels back the layers of her friendβs life, sheβs forced to confront her own as well: the marriage she left behind, the loss sheβd hoped to escape. And suddenly Ellieβs carefully constructed existence is spinning out of control in a chain of events that will transform her lifeβand those around herβforever. A novel that will resonate in the heart of anyone whoβs 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.
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