Cover Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Note on the Author; Acknowledgments; 1 "Universe"; 2 "Fear Is the Key"; 3 "Can't Get Bitter"; 4 "So Far Gone"; 5 "Authentic Fake"; 6 "Little Man"; 7 "Chocolate Eyes"; 8 "Bedsprings"; 9 "No Goodbyes"; 10 "Lost in Limbo"; 11 "Simple and True"; 12 "Op
Alexandra, Gone
β Scribed by Anna McPartlin
- Publisher
- Simon and Schuster;Pocket Books
- Year
- 2010
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 166 KB
- Category
- Fiction
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β¦ Synopsis
EDITORIAL REVIEW:
LETTING GO FOR GOOD . . .
Once, Jane Moore and Alexandra Walsh were inseparable, sharing secrets and stolen candy, plotting their futures together. But when Jane became pregnant at seventeen, they drifted slowly apart. Jane has spent the years since raising her son, now seventeen himself, on her own, running a gallery, managing her sisters art career, and looking after their volatile motherall the while trying not to resent the limited choices life has given her.
Then a quirk of fate and a faulty elevator bring Jane into contact with Tom, Alexandras husband, who has some shocking news. Alexandra disappeared from a south Dublin suburb months ago, and Tom has been searching fruitlessly for her. Jane offers to help, as do the elevators other passengersJanes brilliant but self-absorbed sister, Elle, and Leslie Sheehan, a reclusive web designer whos ready to step back into the world again. And as Jane quickly realizes, Tom isnt the only one among them whos looking for something . . . or traveling toward unexpected revelations about love, life, and what it means to let go, in every sense.
In this insightful and irresistible novel, by turns profound, poignant, and laugh- out-loud funny, acclaimed Irish writer Anna McPartlin tells a story of friendship and love, of the families we are born into and the ones we create for ourselves, and of the hope and strength that remain when we fi nd the courage to leave the past behind at last.
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