Since November 2009Book Cover: The One I Love by Anna McPartlin
April 23rd, 2010 by Leah
I was a huge fan of the Anna McPartlin book I read earlier this year, Pack Up The Moon. So much so that I set out to get all of Anna’s other books. I now have all of them sitting on my shelf, bar her latest release So What If ‘m Broken. So when I was scouting around for new book news I was thrilled to find Penguin would be releasing So What If I’m Broken (aka Alexandra, Gone in the USA) in October 2010 with the new title of The One I Love. I’m not a huge fan of the cover - I prefer the cover for No Way To Say Goodbye - but I’ll still be buying the book. Here’s the synopsis:
Once Jane and Alexandra were inseparable; sharing secrets, stolen booze and big dreams for the future. But when Jane got pregnant at seventeen, they drifted apart.
Seventeen years later, Jane discovers Alexandra has disappeared and she has no choice but to be there for her old friend one more time. With her sister, Elle, and Leslie, a reclusive computer expert, Jane sets about helping Alexandra’s broken-hearted husband to find his wife. But in searching for Alexandra these three women are about to confront themselves. Jane has to figure out how to stop trying to control the world and start caring for herself for a change. Devil-may-care Elle has to recognize the existence of limits. And Leslie must get to grips with a bewildering new desire to live life to the full. As for Alexandra’s husband, Tom, well he just has to figure out what to do if they can’t find his wife. Four fractured people come together accidentally and in one another they find strength, friendship – and even the beginnings of hope . . .
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Thanks for the review. Have read all of Anna’s previous books so will keep an eye out for this one.
I was caught out with her last book, As sure as the Sun, which was actually one of her previous books, The Truth will Out, re-released under a different title. Reading the synopsis you’ve given for her next book, The One I Love, I’m assuming that this is actually her current book Alexandra, Gone under a different name. I really hate when publishers do this.
Actually just re-read some of the synopsis’s on her other books and Alexandra, Gone and The One I Love both look like they are So What If I’m Broken under different titles so I’ll be giving these a wide berth.
Hopefully Anna will soon have a genuine brand new book out and not a re-release. I spend enough money on books without buying books by accident, thinking they are new books, when they are actually a previous book re-released!!!
Hi Shaz - that was my error, The One I Love, Alexandra Gone and So What If I’m Broken are all the same title, I forgot to add it. Will amend my post now!
Thanks Leah, that wasn’t having a whinge at you it was having a pop at publishers as a couple of times recently I’ve pre-ordered books thinking they are new releases and then once I get the book I realise I’ve already read it when it was released previously under a different title.
That is insanely irritating - a little note would be nice on the page somewhere telling you it’s been released under another name would help. Penguin, on No Way To Say Goodbye, do have a little note at the bottom of the book itself telling us it’s original title! That’s no good if you buy it first though!
I’ve not read this book so will be looking out for it.