Saturday, April 17, 2010

February #1 - STILL LIFE


Title: Still life

Author: Joy Fielding

Publisher: Atria Books

Copyright: 2009

ISBN: 978-1-4165-8527-5

Series or stand-alone: Stand-alone

Setting: South Philadelphia

1st Sentence:

Less than an hour before the car slammed into her at a speed of almost fifty miles an hour, throwing her ten feet into the air, breaking nearly every bone in her body and cracking her head against the hard concrete, Casey Marshall was sitting in the elegant narrow dining room of Southwark, one of South Philadelphia's more popular white-tablecloth restaurants, finishing lunch with her two closest friends and stealing glances at the beautiful, secluded courtyard behind their heads.


Comments:

Casey is in a car accident and finds herself in the hospital "locked in" - aware of her surroundings but unable to communicate that. Everyone around her thinks she is in a coma. And some feel safe in talking and she learns many interesting things -- like the cause of her accident and why!

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