Research Catalog

Title

After you : a novel / Julie Buxbaum.

Author

Buxbaum, Julie

Publication

New York : Dial Press, c2009.

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Details

Description

340 p.; 25 cm.

Summary

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.

Subject

• Murder victims' families > England > Fiction
• Americans > England > Fiction
• Best friends > Fiction
• Grief > Fiction
• Life change events > Fiction
• Notting Hill (London, England) > Fiction

Genre/Form

• Psychological fiction
• Domestic fiction
• Fiction

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

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.

ISBN

• 9780385341240 (hardcover)
• 0385341245 (hardcover)

LCCN

^^2009009634

OCLC

• 259265981
• SCSB-12600298

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library