Goodbye For Now
By (Author) Laurie Frankel
Headline Publishing Group
Headline Review
9th July 2013
United Kingdom
General
Fiction
813.6
Paperback
432
Width 128mm, Height 196mm, Spine 26mm
300g
A poignant, heart-warming novel of love, loss and the possibility of keeping the past alive in a wholly unexpected way for fans of ONE DAY, WHEN GOD WAS A RABBIT and THE NOTEBOOK.
Imagine a world in which you never have to say goodbye.A world in which you can talk to your loved ones after they've gone - About the trivial things you used to shareAbout the things you wish you'd said while you still had the chanceAbout how hard it is to adjust to life without them.When Sam Elling invents a computer programme that enables his girlfriend Meredith to do just this, nothing can prepare them for the success and the complications that follow. For every person who wants to say goodbye, there is someone else who can't let go. And when tragedy strikes, they have to find out whether goodbye has to be for ever. Or whether love can take on a life of its own...Will make you laugh, think and cry - Jill Mansell
A thought-provoking 2012 love story well-told - CompanyA brilliantly unsettling novel... An unforgettable, heartbreaking novel... impossible to put down - Image (Ireland)Frankel's novel is a bittersweet account of loss and the very modern phenomenon that is online immortality. If you're a fan of One Day, this one's going to have you hooked - Stylist.co.ukA kooky story that fans of One Day will love - GlamourWitty writing and a fast-moving story make Goodbye for Now compulsively readable, but it is also a thought-provoking examination of consciousness and identity - Graeme Simsion, author of The Rosie ProjectLaurie Frankel lives in Seattle with her husband, son and border collie. Before becoming a full-time writer, she taught literature, writing and gender studies at a US university.