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Leaving the world : a novel
Title:
Leaving the world : a novel
Author:
Kennedy, Douglas, 1955-
Personal Author:
Edition:
First Atria paperback edition.
Publication Information:
New York, NY : Atria Paperback, 2010.

©2009
Physical Description:
480 pages ; 23 cm
Summary:
Jane Howard is a professor in Boston, in love with a brilliant, erratic man named Theo, and she becomes pregnant. Motherhood turns out to be a great welcome surprise--but when a devastating turn of events tears her existence apart she has no choice but to flee all she knows and leave the world. Just when she has renounced life itself, the disappearance of a young girl pulls her back from the edge and into an obsessive search for some sort of personal redemption. Convinced that she knows more about the case than the police do, she is forced to make a decision--stay hidden or bring to light a shattering truth.
General Note:
Originally published: London : Hutchinson, 2009.

Includes a Readers Club guide.
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781439180785
Format :
Book