FROM THE MILLION-COPY BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE WEDDING PEOPLE Sally Holt has always been
mystified by the things her older sister Kathy seems to have been born knowing. Kathy has
answers for all of Sally's questions about life about love and about Billy Barnes the high
school basketball star who runs the refreshment stand at the local pool. Billy's unfathomable
otherworldly cool puts him on a different planet - until a tragedy leaves Sally's life forever
intertwined with his. Opening in the early nineties and charting almost two decades of shared
history and missed connections Notes on Your Sudden Disappearance is a dazzlingly
unconventional love story that brims with unexpected moments of joy. THE ACCLAIMED SECOND
NOVEL FROM ALISON ESPACH NOW PUBLISHED IN THE UK FOR THE FIRST TIME. 'Heartbreaking and
funny often in the same sentence' Claire Lombardo 'An immensely talented writer . . .
deeply moving always excellent' Emily St. John Mandel 'Tender eloquent and wise this is an
intensely beautiful book by a supremely gifted writer' Karen Thompson Walker 'Unputdownable
insightful funny and emotionally profound' Rufi Thorpe 'This is truly a novel like no other'
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