So Far Away: A Novel - Softcover

Mitchell Moore, Meg

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0316097705 ISBN 13: 9780316097703

Publisher: Reagan Arthur / Back Bay Books, 2013

Synopsis

Thirteen-year-old Natalie Gallagher is trying to escape: from her parents' ugly divorce, and from the vicious cyber-bullying of her former best friend. Adrift, confused, she is a girl trying to find her way in a world that seems to either neglect or despise her. Her salvation arrives in an unlikely form: Bridget O'Connell, an Irish maid working for a wealthy Boston family. The catch? Bridget lives only in the pages of a dusty old 1920s diary Natalie unearthed in her mother's basement. But the life she describes is as troubling - and mysterious - as the one Natalie is trying to navigate herself, almost a century later.

As the troubles of a very modern world close in around them, and Natalie's torments at school escalate, the faded pages of Bridget's journal unite the lonely girl and the unhappy widow - and might even change their lives forever.

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Review:

This sweet and thoughtful novel is both tense and elegiac, exploring the damage we inflict on ourselves and each other, and the strength it takes to heal. (Publishers Weekly Publishers Weekly)

Meg Mitchell Moore has taken the hot button topic of cyber bullying and crafted a story so compellingly real you will never forget her thirteen-year-old heroine, Natalie Gallagher. Moore's pitch-perfect rendering of this girl's voice is nothing short of stunning. (Laura Harrington, Author of Alice Bliss Laura Harrington)

Book Description:

'So Far Away is a powerful page-turner about love, loss, motherhood, and friendship.' - J. Courtney Sullivan, bestselling author of Maine

About this edition

• Publisher: Reagan Arthur / Back Bay Books
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 0316097705
• ISBN 13: 9780316097703
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 354