Synopses & Reviews
Sometimes it takes losing everything to truly find yourself...
Since Sandy Shortt's childhood classmate disappeared twenty years ago, Sandy has been obsessed with missing things. Finding what is lost becomes her single-minded goal--from the lone sock that vanishes in the washing machine to the car keys she misplaced. It's no surprise, then, that Sandy's life's work becomes finding people who have vanished from their loved ones. Sandy's family is baffled and concerned by her increasing preoccupation. Her parents can't understand her compulsion, and she pushes them away further by losing herself in the work of tracking down these missing people. She gives up her life in order to offer a flicker of hope to devastated families...and escape the disappointments of her own.
Jack Ruttle is one of those devastated people. It's been a year since his brother Donal vanished into thin air, and he has enlisted Sandy Shortt to find him. But before she is able to offer Jack the information he so desperately needs, Sandy goes missing too...and Jack now finds himself searching for his brother and the one woman who understood his pain.
One minute Sandy is jogging through the park, the next, she can't figure out where she is. The path is obscured. Nothing is familiar. A clearing up ahead reveals a camp site, and it's there that Sandy discovers the impossible: she has inadvertently stumbled upon the place-- and people--she's been looking for all her life, a land where all the missing people go. A world away from her loved ones and the home she ran from for so long, Sandy soon resorts to her old habit again, searching. Though this time, she is desperately trying to find her way home...
Review
"A positively magical novel, Ahern's latest sparkles with wit, compelling characters, and a truly clever premise." Booklist (Starred Review)
Review
"With no mention of shoes or fashion and very little about Sandy's romantic relationship, this book may disappoint readers expecting typical chick-lit fare, but Ahern fans will find it a fascinating and pleasant read." Anika Fajardo, Library Journal
Synopsis
People disappear every day, some because they choose to leave their old lives behind, and some for more unpleasant reasons. Things, too, disappear: mittens and cell phones, wallets and luggage. In every case, someone is left behind; someone is left to wonder what happened. Ever since her classmate Jenny-May vanished when they were 10 years old, Sandy Shortt has been obsessed with finding things. Now grown, Sandy's obsession has become a calling, with her own agency devoted to locating missing persons. But with every failed case, Sandy is plagued with questions: Where do missing people go? Are they alive or dead? Did they intend to disappear, or did they suffer some cruel fate? As these questions threaten to consume her, Sandy suddenly finds that she, herself, has disappeared, and that she has found all the answers she's always searched for in a magical place where all lost things and people go. A romance that explores the meaning of loss and love, There's No Place Like Here is Cecelia Ahern's most satisfying, most inspired, most entrancing novel yet.
Synopsis
Thirty-four-year-old Sandy Shortt has made it her life's ambition to search for all the missing things in life. It started with the disappearance of her class mate Jenny-May, back when they were both 10. Since then it has become an obsession from the single sock that comes out of the dryer, missing its mate, to the people who leave for work one morning never to return to their loved ones. Sandy's determination to know where everything is grows and leads to a life dedicated to searching, but not often enough, finding. As an adult, Sandy's job is to find missing people. She knows all the missing intimately names, faces, likes and dislikes, all recorded in the files she keeps. Sandy's life is a mass of contradictions however, from her name she's neither sandy, nor short to her life's work. In fact, all this searching for the things and people that aren't in her life leads her to become blind to those that are in it. That is, until she stumbles across a world where all the missing people go. Here, she is forced to face up to all that has gone missing in her life, and for the first time that includes facing herself.
Synopsis
Since she was 10 years old, Sandy Shortt has been obsessed with finding things. Now grown, Sandy's obsession has become a calling, in this romance t hat explores the meaning of loss and love Ahern's most satisfying and entrancing novel yet.
Synopsis
Since the age of 10, Sandy Shortt has been obsessed with finding things. Now grown, Sandy's obsession has become a calling, in this romance that explores the meaning of loss and love.
About the Author
Cecelia Ahern, author of the international bestsellers PS, I Love You, Love, Rosie, and If You Could See Me Now, is the daughter of Ireland's prime minister. Ahern's books are published in 46 countries and collectively have sold over 6 million copies worldwide. A movie based on her first novel, PS, I Love You, was released in December 2007. She is also the co-creator, along with screenwriter Don Todd, of the ABC sitcom Samantha Who?, which premiered on ABC stations in October 2007. Cecelia has just completed her fifth novel.