Anywhere for You
A Novel
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Publisher Description
“A stylish and confident new voice—readers are going to love discovering Abbie Greaves.” — Louise Candlish, internationally bestselling author of Our House and Those People
A poignant and thrilling love story about one woman’s decade-long search to reconnect with the love of her life who disappeared without a trace—a stirring and heartfelt page-turner from the critically acclaimed author of The Silent Treatment.
The straphangers of Ealing Broadway station are familiar with Mary O’Connor, the woman who appears every day to watch the droves of busy commuters. But Mary never asks anything from anyone. She only holds out a sign bearing a heartrending message: Come Home Jim.
While others pass her by without a thought, Alice, a junior reporter at the Ealing Bugle, asks Mary to tell her story. Many years ago, Mary met the charming and romantic Jim Whitnell. She was certain she’d found her other half, until one day he vanished without any explanation. But Mary believes that Jim isn’t a cad, that he truly loved her and will return—especially because she’s recently received grainy phone calls from him saying he misses her.
Touched but also suspicious, Alice quietly begins her own investigation into Jim’s disappearance, unraveling a decade-long story filled with desire, heartbreak, and hope. With Greaves’s signature warmth and charm, Anywhere for You is a romantic and immensely moving novel about the enduring power of love and finding happiness in unexpected places.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
In Greaves's uneven sophomore effort (after The Silent Treatment), a London cub reporter gets personally invested in a human-interest story to the point of obsession. Alice Keaton observes Mary O'Connor standing nightly in the Ealing Broadway subway station with a sign imploring her erstwhile partner, depressed alcoholic Jim Whitnell, to come home after having left seven years earlier. Alice persists in trying to find Jim, even after Mary asks her to stop; it turns out Alice wants to give Mary the same sense of closure Alice found as a teen when she finally heard from her estranged father. Though she keeps her identity as a reporter secret, Alice also hopes the article she plans to write will save her job at the paper, which is facing budget cuts. Aiding her is Kit, Mary's thoughtful—and attractive—co-worker at a telephone crisis center. Mary's haunted by the fight she and Jim had the last time they spoke, and gradually the details emerge over what drove them apart. Greaves begins with a sense of mystery, but long, clunky passages of exposition keep the reader from getting invested in the characters, making the twists and turns fall flat. Despite its occasionally provocative sparks, this never really gets going.
