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Atria Books, February 2009
eBook, 384 pages
ISBN-10: 1416597948
ISBN-13: 9781416597940
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A RICH AND STARTLING NOVEL ABOUT A WOMAN WHO MUST FACE A PAST SHE’D RATHER FORGET IN ORDER TO UNCOVER A DANGEROUS LEGACY THAT THREATENS HER FUTURE Ten years ago, U.S. State Department intelligence officer Jordan Weiss’s idyllic experience as a graduate student at Cambridge was shattered when her boyfriend Jared drowned in the River Cam. She swore she’d never go back—until a terminally ill friend asks her to return. Jordan attempts to settle into her new life, taking on an urgent mission beside rakish agent Sebastian Hodges. Just when she thinks there’s hope for a fresh start, a former college classmate tells her that Jared’s death was not an accident—he was murdered. Jordan quickly learns that Jared’s research into World War II had uncovered a shameful secret, but powerful forces with everything to lose will stop at nothing to keep the past buried. Soon, Jordan finds herself in grave peril as she struggles to find the answers that lie treacherously close to home, the truth that threatens to change her life forever, and the love that makes it all worth fighting for. Fast-paced and impossible to put down, Almost Home establishes Pam Jenoff as one of the best new writers in the genre.
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How did you come to write this book?
Almost Home is the culmination of a vision I've had for more than a decade. I remember traveling through Spain with two friends in the mid-nineties, lying awake in our hotel room and telling them about my idea for a book about a woman whose boyfriend had died under strange circumstances at Cambridge years earlier. Many former Cambridge students, myself included, seemed to have complex relationships with the alma mater where they had enjoyed such deeply passionate experiences, and the death I envisioned was on some level a metaphor for those relationships. I started working on the book soon thereafter, but another project of mine, The Kommandant's Girl, took off first, and so I had to put Almost Home aside for several years until that book, and its sequel, The Diplomat's Wife, were completed. But Almost Home was never far from my heart or mind, and I am overjoyed to finally see it in print!
Blogcritics.org, May 20, 2009
...at 1:23 am 0 comments Pam Jenoff knows how to create tension and drama. Her first book, The Kommandant's Girl, became an international bestseller. Now on her third novel, Jenoff is still delivering the strong ...
Richmond Times Dispatch, March 1, 2009
...is never dead. It's not even past.' -- American writer William Faulkner. Jordan Weiss, the protagonist of 'Almost Home,' Pam Jenoff's captivating and touching third novel, learns to her sorrow that both writers had it right. Ten years ago, ...
Richmond Times Dispatch, February 22, 2009
...by Best American Short Stories. She lives in New York and teaches fiction at the Gotham Writers' Workshop. . . . Pam Jenoff's third novel, 'Almost Home,' centers on Jordan Weiss, an intelligence officer for the State Department. Ten years ...
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