The Breakdown Lane : A Novel EPUB
by Jacquelyn Mitchard
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An advice columnist and mother searches for vanished husband in this dramatic novel by the New York Times-bestselling author of The Deep End of the Ocean.
An advice columnist for a Wisconsin newspaper, Julieanne Gillis dispenses wisdom to her readers, but somehow missed the signs that something was amiss in her own home. Devoted to being a good mother and keeping her twenty-year marriage fresh and exciting, she is shocked by her husband's surprise announcement that he needs a "sabbatical" from their life together-and devastated when he disappears, leaving Julie with no funds to raise two teenagers and a small daughter alone. But it is the discovery Julieanne suffers from a serious illness that truly crumbles her family's foundation-setting her children on a dangerous, quixotic journey to locate their missing father before it's too late.
Praise for The Breakdown Lane
"Rousing melodrama; fluid, often funny, dialogue; and the convincing portrayal of children involved in the collapse of a marriage add up to another page-turner from Mitchard." -Publishers Weekly
"An astute observer of family dynamics, Mitchard renders her characters flawlessly, endowing them with a humanity that is both accessibly grounded and astonishingly deep." -Booklist
"A compelling mix of suspense, humor, and abiding humanity." -Boston Globe
"A novel you will read once, then again and again." -Tulsa World
An advice columnist for a Wisconsin newspaper, Julieanne Gillis dispenses wisdom to her readers, but somehow missed the signs that something was amiss in her own home. Devoted to being a good mother and keeping her twenty-year marriage fresh and exciting, she is shocked by her husband's surprise announcement that he needs a "sabbatical" from their life together-and devastated when he disappears, leaving Julie with no funds to raise two teenagers and a small daughter alone. But it is the discovery Julieanne suffers from a serious illness that truly crumbles her family's foundation-setting her children on a dangerous, quixotic journey to locate their missing father before it's too late.
Praise for The Breakdown Lane
"Rousing melodrama; fluid, often funny, dialogue; and the convincing portrayal of children involved in the collapse of a marriage add up to another page-turner from Mitchard." -Publishers Weekly
"An astute observer of family dynamics, Mitchard renders her characters flawlessly, endowing them with a humanity that is both accessibly grounded and astonishingly deep." -Booklist
"A compelling mix of suspense, humor, and abiding humanity." -Boston Globe
"A novel you will read once, then again and again." -Tulsa World
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- Publisher:HarperCollins
- Publication Date:13/10/2009
- ISBN:9780061842092
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- Format:EPUB
- Publisher:HarperCollins
- Publication Date:13/10/2009
- ISBN:9780061842092