Without Her (Paperback)
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Description
When her old friend Hannah doesn't show up at her house in the south of France, everyone assumes that Claudia, who has known Hannah since their shared years at boarding school, will know where she is, and what has happened. But as Claudia travels from the USA to France to help Hannah’s husband and children conduct their search, she is forced to deal with her old jealousy of Hannah, as well as her own relationship in the present with her French lover, Alexandre. As events unfold, Claudia begins to wonder if Hannah and Alexandre may have had an affair and if that has had something to do with Hannah's mysterious disappearance. In this exquisitely written, Ferrante-esque novel the question of whether or not Hannah will come back becomes urgent and bewildering. And if she doesn't come back, what will the lives of her friends and family be without her?
About the Author
Poet and novelist Rosalind Brackenbury is the author of Becoming George Sand Paris Still Life The Third Swimmer and The Lost Love Letters of Henri Fournier A former writer-in-residence at the College of William and Mary in Williamsburg Virginia she has also served as poet laureate of Key West teaching poetry workshops She has attended the yearly Key West Literary Seminar as both panelist and moderator Born in London Rosalind lived in Scotland and France before moving to the United States Her 2016 novel The Third Swimmer was a 2016 INDIES Silver Winner in adult General Fiction She now lives in Key West Florida with her American husband Her latest poetry collection Invisible Horses was published by Hanging Loose Press NY in May 2019
Praise For…
“I absolutely love this book!” — Annie Dillard
“This standout novel... highlighted by fine prose and finely drawn characters... reaches into the heart of a long, complicated friendship, and the result is a skilled combination of a missing-person mystery and a sentimental reminiscence.” — Publishers Weekly
“A steady, cool, thoughtful novel... a meditation on loyalty, friendship, and the geometry of human interconnection.” — Kirkus Reviews
“Rosalind Brackenbury knows how to grab her reader by the throat and hang on for dear life. Without Her is a smart, sexy, mysterious and utterly compelling novel.” — Lee Smith, author of The Last Girls
“In Rosalind Brackenbury’s fine new novel, two long-term lovers search for a friend who has disappeared and find that death can be a kind of victory. I enjoyed and admired it.” — Alison Lurie, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Foreign Affairs and The Language of Houses