NEW RELEASE
Falling Together - Marisa de los Santos (2011)
Pen Calloway hasn't seen her best friends from college, Will and Cat, since they walked out of her life six years earlier. Suddenly, she receives a desperate email from Cat asking to meet at their college reunion. Despite the end of their friendship and all that has happened in her life since college, Pen has never stopped missing her friends and wanting to reconnect with them. The reunion she is hoping for, however, is not to be as she discovers the email wasn't from Cat after all. What happens next catapults Pen, her daughter, Augusta, Will and Cat's husband across the globe in search of their friend and the truth. In a story that vacillates between past and present, we learn about the friendship between Pen, Cat and Will, their individual lives and finally the details of what broke them apart. Marisa de los Santos writes with care and wit, bringing her characters to life and making their journey around the world one of vivid discovery. A story of true friendship and realisation of what is meant to be in life. (LEK)
Marisa de los Santos' latest novel Falling Together is about a single mother who goes on a journey into Asia to find an old friend. The summary says: "What would you do if an old friend needed you, but it meant turning your new life upside down? Pen, Will, and Cat met during the first week of their first year of college and struck up a remarkable friendship, one that sustained them and shaped them for years - until it ended abruptly, and they went their separate ways. Now, six years later, Pen is the single mother of a five-year-old girl, living with her older brother in Philadelphia and trying to make peace with the sudden death of her father. Even though she feels deserted by Will and Cat, she has never stopped wanting them back in her life, so when she receives an email from a desperate-sounding Cat asking her to meet her at their upcoming college reunion, Pen goes. What happens there sends past and present colliding and sends Pen and her friends on a journey across the world, a journey that will change everything." Falling Together is out in October.