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Zusatztext a beautifully written and very haunting read... Every character in this novel is gorgeously drawn and authentic ! very real emotions come off the page and it is often sad but also very uplifting. This is a novel about family! love! holding onto hope and learning to be happy in the face of huge upheaval . Brilliantly done: evocative and terrifically compelling! this is one that will stay with me Informationen zum Autor Bret Anthony Johnston is the author of the award-winning Corpus Christi: Stories , which was described by David Mitchell as 'a gorgeous, accomplished debut', and was named a Best Book of the Year by the Independent and the Irish Times , and the internationally bestselling novel Remember Me Like This , a New York Times Editor's Choice and one of the Observer 's best Holiday Reads 2014. His work appears in the Atlantic Monthly , Esquire , the Paris Review , the Best American Short Stories, and elsewhere. A graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop, he's the recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellowship and a 5 Under 35 honor from the National Book Foundation, and the winner of the Sunday Times EFG Short Story Award 2017 . Previously the Director of Creative Writing at Harvard, he is now the Director of the James A. Michener Center for Writers in Austin, Texas. bretanthonyjohnston.com Facebook/BAJbooks Klappentext Autumn has finally arrived in the small town of Bascom! North Carolina! heralded by a strange old man appearing with a beaten-up suitcase. He has stories to tell! stories that could change the lives of the Waverley women forever. But the Waverleys have enough trouble on their hands. Quiet Claire Waverley has started a successful new venture! Waverley's Candies! but it's nothing like she thought it would be! and it's slowly taking over her life. Claire's wild sister Sydney! still trying to leave her past behind! is about to combust with her desire for another new beginning. And Sydney's fifteen-year-old daughter Bay has given her heart away to the wrong boy and can't get it back.From the author of the New York Times bestselling sensation GARDEN SPELLS! FIRST FROST is magical and atmospheric! taking readers back into the lives of the gifted Waverley women - back to their strange garden and temperamental apple tree! back to their house with a personality of its own! back to the men who love them fiercely - proving that a happily-ever-after is never the real ending to a story. It's where the real story begins. NYT NOTABLE BOOK - OBSERVER BEST HOLIDAY READS - BBC RADIO 4 BOOK AT BEDTIME A powerful and affecting novel of a family which has moved readers everywhere. Zusammenfassung NYT NOTABLE BOOK - OBSERVER BEST HOLIDAY READS - BBC RADIO 4 BOOK AT BEDTIMEA powerful and affecting novel of a family which has moved readers everywhere....
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I'm looking forward to a week in southern Spain in the company of Remember Me Like This by Bret Anthony Johnston. It has a fascinating fictional premise: a missing child who comes back and a changed family who have to get used to the idea. I've dipped into it already and the writing is clear and beautiful. Besides, a novel that comes with effusive quotes from John Irving and Alice Sebold has to be pretty good. Elizabeth Day Observer (Best Summer Reads 2014)
