{"product_id":"2940169176872","title":"After You: A Novel","description":"The complexities of a friendship. The unexplored doubts of a marriage. And the redemptive power of literature...Julie Buxbaum, the acclaimed author of \u003cb\u003eThe Opposite of Love\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e,\u003c\/i\u003e delivers a haunting, gloriously written novel about love, family, and the secrets we hide from each other-and ourselves.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIt happened on a tree-lined street in Notting Hill to a woman who seemed to have the perfect life. Ellie Lerner's best friend, Lucy, was murdered in front of her young daughter. And, as best friends do, Ellie dropped everything-her marriage, her job, her life in the Boston suburbs-to travel to London and pick up the pieces of Lucy's life. While Lucy's husband, Greg, copes with his grief by retreating into himself, eight-year-old Sophie has simply stopped speaking.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDesperate to help Sophie, Ellie turns to a book that gave her comfort as a child, \u003ci\u003eThe Secret Garden.\u003c\/i\u003e As the two spend hours exploring the novel's winding passageways, its story of hurt, magic, and healing blooms around them. But so, too, do Lucy's secrets-some big, some small-secrets Lucy kept hidden, even from her best friend. Over a summer in London, as Ellie peels back the layers of her friend's life, she's forced to confront her own as well: the marriage she left behind, the loss she'd hoped to escape. And suddenly Ellie's carefully constructed existence is spinning out of control in a chain of events that will transform her life-and those around her- forever. A novel that will resonate in the heart of anyone who's had a best friend, a love lost, or a past full of regrets, \u003cb\u003eAfter You\u003c\/b\u003e proves once again the unique and compelling talent of Julie Buxbaum.","brand":"Penguin Random House","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47104328302832,"sku":"2940169176872","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940169176872_p0.jpg?v=1763674590","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940169176872","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}