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Product Identifiers

PublisherAtria Books

ISBN-101416590668

ISBN-139781416590668

eBay Product ID (ePID)71610634

Product Key Features

Book TitleEveryone She Loved : a Novel

Number of Pages432 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year2009

TopicPsychological, Family Life, General, Mystery & Detective / General, Historical

GenreFiction

AuthorSheila Curran

FormatHardcover

Dimensions

Item Weight21 Oz

Item Length9 in

Item Width6 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceTrade

LCCN2008-049770

Dewey Edition22

Reviews"Curran is a beautiful writer, both witty and evocative, and she knows how to keep a reader riveted. I was up way past my bedtime, unable to stop turning pages. I had to know what happened to this family. Read this book, then pass it on to your dearest friend. She'll thank you." -- Joshilyn Jackson, bestselling author ofGods in AlabamaandBetween, Georgia, "Shelia Curran delivers a fascinating look at family dynamics in this amazing novel. Her cast of characters has depth and nuances that will entrance readers, and her storyline, pulled from the pages of an actual incident, is enthralling."--Wichita Falls Times Record News, "Penelope Cameron May's unusual last request sets off the action in this riveting novel of love and friendship, betrayal and lies. Sheila Curran draws the reader in and this inventive book won't let go."-- Masha Hamilton,The Distance Between Us, The Camel Bookmobile, 31 Hours, "A great novel, with friendship and forgiveness at its heart."-- Paul Shepherd, Mary McCarthy Award winning writer ofMore Like Not Running Away, "Everyone She Lovedwas the voice inside my head - at a time when I first contemplated my own mortality...this could have been my husband, my girlfriends and my children...it raises every emotion and suppressed fear within us all, with a clarity that is both deeply uncomfortable and yet stridently beautiful." -- Julz Graham, television host,Dimensions, "Curran is a beautiful writer, both witty and evocative, and she knows how to keep a reader riveted. I was up way past my bedtime, unable to stop turning pages. Read this book, then pass it on to your dearest friend. She'll thank you."-- Joshilyn Jackson,Gods in Alabama, Between, Georgia, The Girl Who Stoppped Swimming, "It isn't so much that Curran has found her greatest muse in the unbreakable bonds between women, but that the unbreakable bonds between women have have found their greatest writer in Sheila Curran." -- Julianna Baggott, bestselling author of numerous books includingThe Pretend Wife, My Husbands Sweethearts, The Prince of Fenway Park

Dewey Decimal813/.6

SynopsisFilled with characters who make you laugh out loud even as they break your heart, this is a funny, warm, inventive, original book.--Jodi Picoult., A wise and triumphant novel about four women who've come of age together only to discover that -- when it comes to the essentials -- life's little instruction book will always need revising.Penelope Cameron, loving mother, devoted wife and generous philanthropist, has convinced her husband and four closest friends to sign an outlandish pact. If Penelope should die before her two daughters are eighteen, her husband will not remarry without the permission of Penelope's sister and three college roommates. For years, this contract gathers dust until the unthinkable happens. Suddenly, everyone she loved must find their way in a world without Penelope.For Lucy Vargas, Penelope's best friend, and a second mother to her daughters, nothing seems more natural than to welcome them into a home that had once belonged to their family, a lovely, sprawling bed-and-breakfast on the beach. This bequest was only one of the many ways in which Penelope had supported Lucy's career as a painter, declaring her talent too important to squander. But now, in the wake of a disaster that only lovable, worrisome Penelope could have predicted, Lucy has put her work on hold as she and Penelope's husband, Joey, blindly grasp at anything that will keep the girls from sinking under the weight of their grief.With the help of family and friends, the children slowly build new lives. But just when things start to come together, the fragile serenity they have gained is suddenly threatened from within, and the unbreakable bonds they share seem likely to dissolve after all.In this entertaining and uplifting novel, Sheila Curran explores the faith one woman placed in her dearest friends, the care she took to protect her family and the many ways in which romantic entanglements will confound and confuse even the most determined of planners. A story about growing up and moving on, about the sacrifices people make for one another and the timeless legacy of love,Everyone She Lovedis, above all, about the abiding strength of friendship.

LC Classification NumberPS3603.U768E84 2009