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After you : a novel / Julie Buxbaum.

by Buxbaum, Julie.

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Dial Press, c2009.

Murder victims' families -- Fiction.

Americans -- England -- Fiction.

Best friends -- Fiction.

Grief -- Fiction.

Regret -- Fiction.

Life change events -- Fiction.

Notting Hill (London, England) -- Fiction.

9780143055136 (2010 Penguin pbk ed.)

1 v. (various pagings).

"Novel about love, family, and the secrets we hide from each other--and ourselves. 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 Lucy's 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 those around her--forever. A novel that will resonate in the heart of anyone who's had a best friend, a love lost, or a past full of regrets."--Inside jacket.

Psychological fiction.

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