The Breakdown Lane

Mitchard, Jacquelyn

ISBN 10: 0060587253 / ISBN 13: 9780060587253

Published by HarperTorch, 2006

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Breakdown Lane
• Publisher: HarperTorch
• Publication Date: 2006
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0060587253
• ISBN 13: 9780060587253
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: Acceptable

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Synopsis

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Deep End of the Ocean and Twelve Times Blessed comes a novel of the breakdown of a family and of healing after a loss

Giving advice is what Julianne Ambrose Gillis does for a living―every Sunday she doles it out to clueless people she doesn’t know, in a column in her local Wisconsin paper. But when it comes to her personal life, Julie seems to have no insight whatsoever. She has worked hard to keep her marriage fresh and to be a good mother, so it’s a mystery when Leo, her husband of twenty years, decides to defect from their life together and their three children: Gabe, Caroline and Aury.

In his absence, Julie is diagnosed with a serious illness, which drives her children to undertake a dangerous journey to find Leo―before it’s too late. But what they discover about their father is even more devastating than their mother’s deteriorating health.

As the known world sinks precariously from view and leaves them all adrift, the Gillis clan must navigate their way through the trenches of love, guilt and betrayal, back to solid ground and a new definition of family.

About the Author

New York Times bestseller Jacquelyn Mitchard's novels include The Deep End of the Ocean, Twelve Times Blessed, and The Breakdown Lane. She is also the author of The Rest of Us: Dispatches from the Mother Ship, a collection of her newspaper columns. She lives with her husband and six children in Madison, Wisconsin.