Anywhere for You
Book Feature - Anywhere for You by Abbie Greaves
HBL Note: In early 2020 I featured the debut novel, The Silent Treatment along with an interview with the author, Abbie Greaves. So I was delighted when I heard back from her publicist toward the end of the year introducing her next novel, Anywhere for You. This hopeful and heart-wrenching novel about a woman searching for clues about the disappearance of the love of her life. JoJo Moyes, the Queen of Hopeful and Heart-wrenching stories, described Abbie’s writing as “remarkably assured.” Scroll down to read more.
From the publisher:
The straphangers of Ealing Broadway station are familiar with Mary O’Connor, the woman who appears every day to watch the droves of busy commuters. But Mary never asks anything from anyone. She only holds out a sign bearing a heartrending message: Come Home Jim.
While others pass her by without a thought, Alice, a junior reporter at the Ealing Bugle, asks Mary to tell her story. Many years ago, Mary met the charming and romantic Jim Whitnell. She was certain she’d found her other half, until one day he vanished without any explanation. But Mary believes that Jim isn’t a cad, that he truly loved her and will return—especially because she’s recently received grainy phone calls from him saying he misses her.
Touched but also suspicious, Alice quietly begins her own investigation into Jim’s disappearance, unraveling a decade-long story filled with desire, heartbreak, and hope. With Greaves’s signature warmth and charm, Anywhere for You is a romantic and immensely moving novel about the enduring power of love and finding happiness in unexpected places.