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Suddenly (Hardcover)

by Barbara Delinsky (Author)
3.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)

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  • Hardcover: 448 pages
  • Publisher: William Morrow & Company; Reprint edition (April 2008)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0066214580
  • ISBN-13: 978-0066214580
  • Product Dimensions: 22.9 x 15.2 x 4.1 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 1,846,331 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars REMINDS US OF THE VALUE OF FRIENDSHIP, COMPASSION, AND LOVE, 27 April 2008
By Gail Cooke (TX, USA) - See all my reviews
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How do you cope with the loss of your best friend - not an expected passing related to age or illness but a sudden, shocking death due to suicide? Do you weep, grieve, and chastize yourself for not being aware of your friend's anguish?

Pediatrician Paige Pfieffer did all of the above when her best friend and business partner Mara O'Neill was found dead. "All she could think was that the tragedy might have been prevented if she had been more attentive, more understanding or more perceptive a friend."

To compound matters Mara's parents ask Paige to make funeral plans, a painful task. Further, when she learns that Mara's body had been found filled with Valium she wonders as she and the other partners, Angie and Peter, knew that Mara was "....vehemently opposed to drug taking. Of the four of us, she issued the fewest prescriptions."

All believed Mara to be her usual energetic self, enthusiastically working, happy, eagerly looking forward to the arrival of her adopted daughter from India.

As author Delinsky reveals in Suddenly, sometimes when a tragedy such as this seemingly senseless, inexplicable one occurs others reevaluate their lives, their beliefs, their actions, their goals. Such is the case with all of the partners but is primarily explored through Paige who cares for Mara's young daughter and finds herself attracted to Noah Perrine, the acting head of a local school where Paige coaches girls' athletics.

Many will be touched by this story and once again realize the value of friendship, compassion and love.

- Gail Cooke
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars from the back cover, 4 April 2007
This review is from: Suddenly (Mass Market Paperback)
In the idyllic small town of Tucker, Vermont, life flows at a rhythmic pace for pediatrician Paige Pfeiffer. But when Mara O'Neill, her best friend and medical partner, inexplicably kills herself, Paige's comfortable world is suddenly shattered. Temporarily caring for Mara's newly adopted baby daughter while she comes to grips with her grief, Paige clings to the hope that, in time, her orderly life will return.
What she hadn't counted on were the unexpected pleasures that often come with change, including the touch of a man who offers Paige things she never thought she wanted. She hadn't counted on finding the meaning of life in the death of a friend.
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The story is by no means as narrow. It also follows the other two pediatricians in the practice, as well as the story of the man mentioned above.
Its a good story though I found the beginning a bit harsh on several accounts. There are quite alot of unpleasant truths, some of which got me very annoyed.
The book sturs some emotions (which ones may depend on the reader) and is good with a good ending. It has alot of 'bad starts' and lots of compromises but there are alot of relationships being examined and it is interesting.
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