Louise Wener is a talented young novelist who will undoubtedly hit the big time sometime soon. She’s created some great characters and smart, unfussy one-liners that will make you laugh out loud, alongside parts that’ll make you want to cry. Moving and gripping by turns you won’t want to put it down.
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Have you ever wished you could walk away from it all? Not for a day, not for a week, but for good.
Claire’s older brother, Daniel, has disappeared. He leaves work one Friday afternoon, shortly before Christmas, and vanishes into thin air. Married, successful, rich, there seems no reason why he would abandon his life. Has he been killed? Has he been kidnapped? Or has he just had enough?
Set between London and Miami, this is the story of a family with ghosts to bury. It opens on the day of the Challenger shuttle explosion at Cape Canaveral; a tragic moment that rips this family apart and sets Daniel’s disappearance in motion some 18 years later.
In the midst of it all sits Claire - promiscuous, divorced, irresponsible; fluent in six foreign languages, yet hopeless at interpreting life. It is Claire that knows Daniel best. It is Claire who becomes convinced that she knows where her older brother is and sets off on a journey to find him.
The Half Life of Stars features in the following genres: Family Drama, eBooks of the Month, Fiction, Romance / Relationship Stories, Recommendations
The Half Life of Stars is available in Paperback
The Half Life of Stars was written by Louise Wener and published by Hodder & Stoughton General Division
The Half Life of Stars has 306 pages