A writer’s suicide sends ripples through the world she left behind:
“A wonderful book…moving and tender and tough and unsentimental,
all at the same time.”—Chicago Tribune An accomplished author with
a string of devoted lovers, Anna Hand savors life in all of its
bittersweet, fleeting moments. So when she gets a letter and discovers
her brother has a daughter he never knew about, she sees a major part
of life that has passed her by: a child to love. Desperate to unite
this young girl with her father, Anna moves back to Charlotte, North
Carolina, to rediscover her family and convince him to accept her.
Caught between the politics of her upper-crust family and love for a
married man, Anna finds her health in serious danger. When her bad
days catch up with her good ones, she must finally face the disease
that had been hiding just beneath the surface. Not willing to resign
herself to months of aggressive treatment, and knowing the outcome
will be the same regardless, she takes matters into her own hands, and
surrenders her body to the sea. But it isn't only Anna's death that
shocks her family. The papers she left behind may lead her sister
Helen to discover more about Anna than she, or any of the Hand family,
need to know… "Gilchrist excels in drawing the bonds of love and
resentment in sexual and family relationships, and no one who
encounters her characters here or in her earlier works will want to
miss reading about them again." —Publishers Weekly
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ISBN
9781635761511
Publisert
2017
Utgiver
Vendor
Diversion Books (ORIM)
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Digital bok
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