Alexandra, Gone

261 Pages·2010·1.08 MB·English

by  McPartlin Anna

“No denying McPartlin has a way with words.”
—Sunday Tribune (Ireland)
PRAISE FOR ANNA McPARTLIN
ALEXANDRA, GONE
“McPartlin writes …with insight and compassion…. Enormously readable.”
—The Irish Times
McPartlin is one of the most interesting popular fiction writers around; funny
and romantic, but also realistic, even dark.”
—Irish Independent
AS SURE AS THE SUN
“Balances the light and dark in her characters….”
—Sunday Tribune (Ireland) “McPartlin’s characters come smiling through …
compelling and …infused with compassion, but with McPartlin’s trademark: a
wicked sense of humor.”
—Irish Independent
“Excellent narrative of a woman’s search for herself and the understanding of
what it means to love.”
—Fresh Fiction
APART FROM THE CROWD
“A realistic and complex story of love in its many forms.”
—Publishers Weekly
“Truly absorbing from start to finish. It impressed me so much that I will be
reading it again.”
—Irish Mail on Sunday
PACK UP THE MOON
“Refreshingly honest, laugh-out-loud funny and heartfelt.”
—International bestselling author Cathy Kelly
“A heartfelt—and surprisingly funny—debut novel with a Hollywood-worthy
ending.”
—Cosmopolitan
“Crisply written, insightful and moving.”
—Irish Independent
A A M P
LSO BY NNA C ARTLIN
Pack Up the Moon
Apart from the Crowd
As Sure as the Sun
Available from Downtown Press
alexandra,
gone
Anna McPartlin

This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either
are products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any
resemblance to actual events or locales or persons, living or dead, is entirely
coincidental.
Copyright © 2009 by Anna McPartlin
Originally published in Ireland in 2009 by Poolbeg Press, Ltd.
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data McPartlin, Anna, 1972-
Alexandra, gone / Anna McPartlin.—1st Downtown Press trade pbk. ed.
p. cm.
1. Disappeared persons’ spouses—Fiction. 2. Loss (Psychology)—Fiction.
3. Rock music fans—Fiction. 4. Friendship—Fiction. 5. Psychological fiction.
6. Domestic fiction. I. Title.
PR6113.C585A79 2010
823’.92—dc22
2009039262
ISBN 978-1-4391-2333-1
ISBN 978-1-4391-6920-9 (ebook)
For Donal, and for all the fans of Jack