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Two warrior angels. First friends, now lovers. Their future? A WILD UNKNOWN.


After You by Julie Buxbaum

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Also by Julie Buxbaum:

Hope and Other Punch Lines, May 2019
Hardcover / e-Book
After You, September 2009
Hardcover
The Opposite of Love, February 2008
Hardcover

After You
Julie Buxbaum

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 other—and ourselves.

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 Lucy’s 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 those around her—forever.

A novel that will resonate in the heart of anyone who’s 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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5 comments posted.

Re: After You

The Opposite of You.

Thanks.
(Tracey Dent 5:13am October 7, 2009)

The Opposite of Love fabulous first book by Julie Buxbaum.
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Barbara Ryan 11:33pm October 14, 2009)

The Opposite of Love---it's excellent!
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Lauri Coates 1:20am October 22, 2009)

THE OPPOSITE OF LOVE is a wonderful book!!!
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Debra McDonald 11:55pm October 24, 2009)

The Opposite Of Love.
I only found 1 triva question is there more questions?
(
Jolynn Rood 10:32pm October 28, 2009)

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