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CASE ONE:
Olivia Land, youngest and most beloved of the Land girls,
goes missing in the night and is never seen again. Thirty
years later, two of her surviving sisters, each achingly
lonely in her own way, reunite when their cruel and distant
father dies. There, among the clutter of their childhood
home, they unearth a shocking clue to Olivia's disappearance.
CASE TWO:
All of Theo's happiness is tied to his devoted daughter Laura.
He delights in her wit, her effortless beauty, her selfless
love, and in the fact that she's taken a position at his
prestigious law firm. But on her first day on the job,
a maniac storms into the office and turns Theo's entire
world upside down.
CASE THREE
Michelle looks around one day and finds herself trapped in
a hell of her own making. A very needy baby and a very
demanding husband make her every waking moment a reminder
that somewhere, somehow, she made a grave mistake and will
spend the rest of her life paying for it-until a fit of
rage creates a grisly, bloody escape.
As Private Detective Jackson Brodie investigates all three
cases, startling connections and discoveries emerge. Jackson
finds himself inextricably caught up in his clients' lives;
their grief, their joy, their desire, and their unshakable
need for resolution are very much like his own.
Kate Atkinson's celebrated talent makes for a novel that
positively sparkles with surprise, comedy, tragedy, and constant,
page-turning delight.
Kate Atkinson's first novel, Behind
the Scenes at the Museum, won the Whitbread First Novel Award
and was then chosen as the overall 1995 Whitbread Book of
the Year. She is the author of two other critically acclaimed
novels, Human Croquet and Emotionally Weird, and a collection
of stories, Not the End of the World.
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