Rushing To Assist The Family Of Her Murdered Best Friend, Ellie Consoles Reclusive Widower Greg And Nurtures Eight-year-old Lucy, Who Has Stopped Speaking. 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 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 The Lives Of Those Around Her -- Forever. Julie Buxbaum.
Categories:
- Literature & Fiction
- Literary
Publisher : The Dial Press
Author : Buxbaum, Julie
Language : English
Edition : 1
Published :2009-08-25
Number Of Pages : 352
Binding : hardcover
ISBN-10 : 0385341245
ISBN-13 : 9780385341240
Item weight : 1.28 lb
Dimensions : 1.34 in x 6.38 in x 9.37 in
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