Weekend Reading
Friday, August 28, 2009 So just a quick note today - almost done my line edits for The One That I Want - so want to get back to them, but wanted to tell you guys that if you're looking for a fabulous book to check out over the weekend, pick up Julie Buxbaum's After You, which hit stores on Tuesday. I loved it enough to blurb, and even if you don't trust me, Jodi Picoult loved it enough to blurb as well, which really says something!
Here's the synopsis:
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 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.
Enjoy!
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Reader Comments (3)
I picked it up Tuesday and haven't been able to put it down (in the few free minutes I've had since then to enjoy it!).
My copy arrived on Tuesday and, once I've finished reading two ARCS, Julie will be my reading pleasure!
I loved Julie's first books so I've been looking forward to this one.