Isabella’s Not Dead
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- 105,00 kr
Publisher Description
From the Sunday Times bestselling author, for anyone who's ever been ghosted – and wondered why…
'Unputdownable' Mel Giedroyc
'Beth is a really clever, funny writer' Nina Stibbe
'The queen of feel-good fiction' Clare Pooley
'Isabella's NOT dead.'
Every time someone asks Gwen about her best friend – you know, the one who ghosted them all fifteen years ago – this is what Gwen tells them.
But where is Isabella? Why did she leave, just when Gwen needed her the most?
Setting out to solve the mystery, in an adventure that takes Gwen across the country then across Europe; that tests her friendships and strains her marriage, Gwen searches for Isabella.
But Isabella's not the only one who's lost. Is Gwen also searching for… herself?
'Beth’s tightly-told tale sneaks up on you then completely grips you. Unputdownable' Mel Giedroyc, The Best Things
'Amusing, smart and compassionate, this is a fabulously relatable feel-good read about the mystery of a ghosted friendship’ Liz Robinson, LoveReading
‘A funny, fresh look at female friendship’ Fabulous magazine (The Sun)
About the author
Previously Creative Director at RDF Television, Beth Morrey now writes full time. Her debut novel, Saving Missy, was a Sunday Times bestseller and longlisted for the Authors' Club First Novel Award.
Beth lives in London with her husband, two sons and two poodles.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
The sparkling latest from Morrey (The Love Story of Missy Carmichael) follows a woman with boundary issues and too much time on her hands as she searches for a long-lost friend. After spending a weekend in the country with friends from school, Gwen, 53, becomes obsessed with tracking down her former bestie Isabella, who fell out of touch with their friend group 15 years earlier. She visits Isabella's reserved parents, and their cryptic comments (Isabella "values her privacy.... After everything that happened"), coupled with the espionage podcast she's been listening to, convince her that Isabella is a spy. Consumed by the case and annoyed with her neglectful husband, she follows a lead to Rome. As she gets closer to the truth, she learns as much about her own weaknesses and preconceptions as she does about Isabella, and she begins to find her way toward a life of "color and vibrancy and dynamism and excitement." With its wild goose chase plot and quirky cast of characters, including Isabella's "modest, restrained, and faintly apologetic" parents and Gwen's mother-in-law, "a gold-plated, X-rated, permanently aerated March Hare," the novel moves briskly along, and there's plenty of wisdom about long-term friendship and midlife crises beneath the fizzy surface. It's a rewarding tale of second chances.
