After You: A Novel (Random House Reader's Circle)

ISBN: 0385341253

Author: Buxbaum, Julie

Condition: New

When tragedy strikes across the ocean, Ellie Lerner drops everything-her marriage, her job, her life in the Boston suburbs-to travel to London and pick up the pieces of her best friend Lucys life. While Lucys husband, Greg, retreats into himself, his and Lucys eight-year-old daughter, 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 its story of hurt, magic, and healing blooms around them, so, too, do Lucys secrets-some big, some small. Peeling back the layers of her friends life, Ellie is forced to confront her own as well: the marriage she left behind, the loss shed hoped to escape. And suddenly Ellies 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.