Alexandra, Gone
Anna McPartlin
Simon and Schuster (2010)
In Collection
#385
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Domestic Fiction, Psychological Fiction
Disappeared Persons' Spouses/ Fiction, Domestic Fiction, Loss (Psychology)/ Fiction, Psychological Fiction, Rock Music Fans/ Fiction
e-Book 9781439123331
English
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 sister's 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, Alexandra's 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 elevator's other passengersJane's brilliant but self-absorbed sister, Elle, and Leslie Sheehan, a reclusive web designer who's ready to step back into the world again. And as Jane quickly realizes, Tom isn't the only one among them who's 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.
Product Details
LoC Classification PR6113.C585 .A79 2010
Dewey 813
Cover Price £15.00
No. of Pages 352
Height x Width 210 x 135  mm
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