Annie is Natalie's doting mother, Blake's dutiful wife and otherwise barely there. Blake's a cad-a habitual philanderer, and the sort of father who forgets birthdays-but we don't totally blame him for bailing out. Blake, Annie's husband, tells her that he wants a divorce so he can start a new life with his sweetheart, a young partner in his law firm. Annie Colwater knows she's in for a spell of loneliness when her 17-year-old daughter, Natalie, leaves Southern California for a summer in London, but the teary airport farewell is just the beginning of a chaotic time. Never one to gush, she is more than ever disciplined in her writing, and the result is a clean, deep thrust into the reader's heart. In her first hardcover after a distinguished career in paperback romance (Home Again), Hannah shows what it takes for an author to make that defining leap.
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