There's No Place Like Here
by:
Cecelia Ahern (author)
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...
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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...
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Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780786891313 (0786891319)
ASIN: 786891319
Publish date: November 24th 2009
Publisher: Hyperion
Pages no: 432
Edition language: English
Well written with a balance of "stories", the merging of the storylines was very well done. It was a light read with lots of simple characters that were drawn nicely with broad strokes to reduce the complexity.I found it a lovely positive read and would recommend as a nice holiday read
Well written with a balance of "stories", the merging of the storylines was very well done. It was a light read with lots of simple characters that were drawn nicely with broad strokes to reduce the complexity.I found it a lovely positive read and would recommend as a nice holiday read
I really really liked the story, the way Ahern explained it to the reader through her character's obssesion.. Gave it three stars beacuse I don't enjoy that much the way she writes. Good book, though!
When I started reading A Place Called Here I was not impressed. It took me at least 100 pages to really get into the book. It seemed to follow the same genres as her other books so I decided to continue reading it. Overall it was actually a pretty good book. You just need to get through the first pa...
Where do lost socks go?The book in one sentence: An allegory of finding one's self. My thoughts: I didn't like Ahern's PS, I Love You very much, so I started reading this one tongue-in-cheek. And wow, I was blown away.This is a dream-like story of Sandy Shortt, who in her youth, witnesses the disapp...