Reconstructing Amelia
Stressed single mother and law partner Kate is in the meeting of her career when she is interrupted by a telephone call to say that her teenaged daughter Amelia has been suspended from her exclusive Brooklyn prep school for cheating on an exam. Torn between her head and her heart, she eventually...
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Stressed single mother and law partner Kate is in the meeting of her career when she is interrupted by a telephone call to say that her teenaged daughter Amelia has been suspended from her exclusive Brooklyn prep school for cheating on an exam. Torn between her head and her heart, she eventually arrives at St Grace's over an hour late, to be greeted by sirens wailing and ambulance lights blazing. Her daughter has jumped off the roof of the school, apparently in shame of being caught. A grieving Kate can't accept that her daughter would kill herself: it was just the two of them and Amelia would never leave her alone like this. And so begins an investigation which takes her deep into Amelia's private world, into her journals, her email account and into the mind of a troubled young girl. Then Kate receives an anonymous text saying simply: AMELIA DIDN'T JUMP. Is someone playing with her or has she been right all along?
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Format: ebook
ISBN:
9781471111303 (147111130X)
Publish date: June 20th 2013
Publisher: Simon & Schuster UK
Pages no: 400
Edition language: English
One of the best books I have read this year. I couldn't put it down from the minute I picked it up. The book received an excellent review in Entertainment Weekly so I gave it a try and am glad I did. I look forward to more from this author
Kate Baron is in an important meeting with a law client when she receives a call from her daughter Amelia's private school, Grace Hall. Amelia is being suspended from school, and Kate must pick her up immediately. Any further information about the situation will not be given over the phone. When...
Kate Baron is a single mother to fifteen-year-old Amelia. As a litigation lawyer Kate works long hours and doesn't have as much time to spend with her daughter as she would like. When a phone call from her daughter's private school disrupts the meeting Kate is in with the news that Amelia has been c...
This was overall a decent book. It kept a good pace and the tension continued to build until it reached a decent climax and a not so satisfying conclusion. The ending was pretty disappointing but there were several turns and twists leading up to it that I didn't see coming. This book is told from a...
Wow, this was intense. It was hard to get into at first, but after the first couple chapters I was enthralled. I couldn't put it down. All the terrible shit Amelia went through with the club and the hazing and the girls harassing her? It made me thank my lucky stars that I've never had to experien...