We have all had ‘I can’t stand it anymore' moments but in Escape the heroine Emily decides enough really is enough and walks out of her job as a lawyer and her marriage to an increasingly work obsessed husband. But Emily quickly finds walking away doesn’t make problems and situations go away. If you like Jodi Picoult then you should read Barbara Delinsky.
One Friday morning, Emily realises that, somewhere in life, she has chosen the wrong path. She needs to escape: from a job that is suffocating her and a personal life that isn't making her happy. These days she barely sees her husband James and their attempts to start a family have proven unsuccessful. Realising the fruitlessness and misery of the life she has created for herself, Emily escapes walks out of her office, turns her phone off, packs a bag and leaves New York. She doesn't even tell James she's leaving. But when a new path leads back to her past, and an old lover, new problems arise. As Emily begins to carve out a new life, where does that leave everything and everyone she left behind?
'Fans of Jodi Picoult will love this...a poignant family story' - Daily Express
'Delinsky's writing is fluid and makes for a hard-to-put-down book as she deftly blends tense family drama with heavy political issues' - Glamour
'...a sensitive exploration of the prejudices that many hold but few express...a page turner that asks serious questions about America's relationship with its past' - The Times
'A really interesting and sometimes harrowing tale that makes for compelling reading' - Sun
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About Barbara Delinsky
Barbara Delinsky is the author of more than twenty bestselling novels with over thirty million copies in print. She has been published in twenty-five languages worldwide. She lives with her family in New England. Before writing she worked as a journalist and photographer for a local newspaper, as well as a researcher for a children’s charity. She also survived aggressive breast cancer, something that caused her mother’s death when she was 8 years old. She has written a book about her and other women’s cancer experiences, Uplift, Secrets from the Sisterhood of Breast Cancer Survivors which has just published a 10th anniversary edition.
