Leaving the World - Douglas Kennedy

Leaving the World

Douglas Kennedy, ISBN:9780099509684, R125.00

Book overview

On the night of her thirteenth birthday, Jane Howard made a vow to her warring parents - she would never get married and she would never have children. But life, as Jane discovers, is a profoundly random business. Many years and many lives later, she is a professor in Boston, in love with a brilliant, erratic man named Theo. And then she falls 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 Jane has renounced life itself, the disappearance of a young girl pulls her back from the edge and into an obsessive search for 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. Like Kennedy's previous highly acclaimed novels, Leaving the World, speaks volumes about the dilemmas we face in trying to navigate our way through all that fate throws in our path.

No preview available - 2010 - 592 pages

 

Reviews

Review: Leaving the World
User Review   - Alexandra - Goodreads -
I loved this book, there are of course (as always) a few details (her stint as a trader didn't make much sense and didn't add all that much to the story, IMHO, and another big one is that the author ...

Review: Leaving the World
User Review   - Susanne - Goodreads -
Douglas Kennedy is back to his page turning best with this book. Although I sometimes found it dark and didn't always like the main character I still found it a gripping read, always wondering what ...

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User Review   - J. Pickering - Amazon.com -
I have enjoyed reading most of Kennedy's previous books, even the highly unbelievable Woman in the Fifth. He has a compelling writing style which draws the reader in, and his characters are ...

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User Review   - Vicky - Goodreads -
Douglas Kennedy did not disappoint me in his new book. As always in his books, the story is interesting to the last page, the language is intelligent and the characters are memorable. What is amazing ...