The End of Loneliness

✍ Scribed by Wells, Benedict; Collins, Charlotte

• Book ID: 110276280
• Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
• Year: 2019
• Tongue: en-US
• Weight: 692 KB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9780525505785

✦ Synopsis

From internationally bestselling author Benedict Wells, a sweeping, heartbreaking novel of friendship, memory, and the lives we never get to live
"[D]azzling storytelling...THE END OF LONELINESS is both affecting and accomplished - and eternal."**-- John Irving **
At eleven years old, Jules Moreau loses his parents in a tragic accident, and in an instant, his childhood is shattered. Leaving a comfortable home in Munich and holidays in the south of France far behind, he and his siblings, Marty and Liz, are enrolled in a bleak boarding school, where the trio begin to lose each other, as well as themselves. Marty throws himself into academic life; Liz is drawn to dark forms of escapism; and Jules, though once vivacious and fearless, turns inward, becoming a ghost of his former self...until he meets Alva. Shy, intelligent, and enigmatic, and concealing a dark childhood of her own, Alva pulls Jules out of his shell and the two bond over books and writing, always...