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Acclaimed novelist Cecelia Ahern's There's No Place Like Here tells the story of Sandy Shortt, an obsessive-compulsive Missing Persons investigator who suddenly finds herself in the mystical land of the missing, desperate to return to the people and places from whom she has spent her life escaping. With this imaginative fourth novel, Ahern, whose P.S. I Love You was made into a major motion picture, continues to establish herself as not only an icon of Irish chick lit, but also a bold and creative thinker.
Continuing the whimsical trend she started with If You Could See Me Now, Ahern asks readers to step outside the boundaries of reality, and enter a world where missing people (and possessions) from all over the globe congregate to start anew. When Sandy goes on an early morning jog and strays too far into the forest, she too finds herself "Here," the aptly named home of the missing. In addition to finding her lost socks, diaries, and stuffed animals, she also finds many of the people she has searched for throughout her career. From Bobby Stanley, who disappeared from his mother's house at the age of sixteen, to Terrence O'Malley, a librarian who disappeared on his way home from work at age 55, Sandy is quickly reunited with the people she has come to know only through photos and heartbreaking memories shared by devastated loved ones who enlisted her services. Of course, finding these people and possessions only makes Sandy realize how much she has missed out on in her real life, most notably her concerned parents and her on again off again boyfriend Greg.
There's No Place Like Here is often predictable and the premise is a bit hard to swallow at times. Still, readers who take the leap will be rewarded with what is ultimately a witty, compassionate, and captivating love story. --Gisele Toueg
From Publishers Weekly
Ahern tells the fantastical story of Sandy Shortt, a smalltown Irish girl who, at 10 years old, becomes obsessed with finding lost things after a neighborhood girl disappears. Sandy's parents fret for years about her fixation, eventually finding her help in the form of hunky high school psychologist Gregory Burton. He's not much older than Sandy, and soon enough they're both smitten, though neither moves to pursue a romantic relationship until later, after Sandy graduates and moves to Dublin, where she tracks missing persons for a living. Gregory follows and they start and stall through an awkward courtship that's cut short when Sandy, while on a jog, gets lost and winds up in a strange parallel universe, home to the people and things that have gone missing from the regular world. What happens to Sandy there, and to those she left behind, will determine not only her future but Gregory's as well. Ahern jumps around in time and space, which adds as much confusion as suspense, but the underlying message about cherishing what you have comes through loudly by the end. That a film adaptation of Ahern's P.S., I Love You is scheduled for release in late December can't hurt sales potential. (Jan.)
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Jenny-May Butler, the little girl who lived across the road from me, went missing when I was a child. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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Cecelia Ahern, Sandy Shortt, Jenny-May Butler, Community Hall, Jack Ruttle, Barbara Langley, Donal Ruttle, Grace Burns, Room Four, Orla Keane, Shannon Estuary, Johnny Nugent, Scathach House, Ford Fiesta, Mary Stanley, There's No Place Like Ilere, Graham Turner, Finbar's Hall, Bobby Stanley, New York, Arthur's Quay, Bobby Duke, Gregory Burton, Robin Geraghty, Carol Dempsey Browse Sample Pages:
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Jenny-May Butler, the little girl who lived across the road from me, went missing when I was a child. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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Cecelia Ahern, Sandy Shortt, Jenny-May Butler, Community Hall, Jack Ruttle, Barbara Langley, Donal Ruttle, Grace Burns, Room Four, Orla Keane, Shannon Estuary, Johnny Nugent, Scathach House, Ford Fiesta, Mary Stanley, There's No Place Like Ilere, Graham Turner, Finbar's Hall, Bobby Stanley, New York, Arthur's Quay, Bobby Duke, Gregory Burton, Robin Geraghty, Carol Dempsey Browse Sample Pages:
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