After You

It happened on a tree-lined street in Notting Hill to a woman whose life seemed perfect. Ellie Lerner's best friend, Lucy, was murdered in front of her young daughter. As best friends do, Ellie dropped everything—her marriage, her job, her life in Boston—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 stopped speaking altogether. As Ellie peels back the layers of Lucy's life, she's forced to confront her own as well. Suddenly her 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, or a past full of regrets, After You proves once again the unique and compelling talent of Julie Buxbaum.