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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