The Opposite Of Love

THE OPPOSITE OF LOVE is a brilliant debut: absorbing and clever, bold and sassy, deeply touching with more than a few laugh-out-loud moments.

Gripping, wise and extremely refreshing. I loved it.

One of the pleasures of Buxbaum's novel is her manipulation of the conventions of Sex and the City and its literary ilk.

Debuts don't often come as fresh as this.

Originally from New York, Julie Buxbaum is a Harvard Law graduate. She put her job as a lawyer on hold to pursue her love of writing and now lives in Los Angeles, California. To find out more about Julie Buxbaum please visit her website at www.juliebuxbaum.com.

When feisty and successful Manhattan attorney Emily Haxby ends her happy relationship just as her boyfriend is on the verge of proposing, she can't explain to herself, let alone her closest friends, why she did it. 
 
And whilst Emily contemplates whether she has made a huge mistake, the rest of her world begins to unravel. She is assigned - by a boss who can't keep his hands to himself - to a multimillion-dollar lawsuit where she must defend the very values she detests, and there's something wrong with Grandpa Jack, the person she cares most about in the world... 
 
As Emily finally begins to take control of her life and come to terms with issues she didn't even know she had, she realizes that perhaps what she wants has been there all along...

Julie Buxbaum

Highlights, beautifully and compellingly, the truth that sometimes we have to lose the people closest to us to find ourselves

On a tree-lined street in affluent Notting Hill, brilliant, beautiful Lucy Stafford was murdered in broad daylight while walking her 8-year-old daughter Sophie to school. Stunned, Lucy's best friend Ellie Lerner boards a plane to London for the funeral, leaving her husband, Phillip, behind, knowing only that she must spend time with her goddaughter. The little girl is in shock, and refuses to speak, while her father, Greg, withdraws into his own very private grief. Instinctively Ellie reaches for the classic book that gave her so much comfort when she was a child - The Secret Garden. As Ellie reads, the weeks pass and gradually the child begins to thaw. It is then that Ellie realizes she, too, has issues of her own that she must finally come to terms with: the still birth of her child, her true feelings for her husband, and a revelation about Lucy herself which sets Ellie reeling. 
 
Filled with the loving and eccentric characters that made The Opposite of Love such a success, with wisdom far beyond her years, Julie Buxbaum has written a novel that explores the resilience of the heart, and the ability for books to reawaken the spirit.

Julie Buxbaum

Praise for After You

Highlights, beautifully and compellingly, the truth that sometimes we have to lose the people closest to us to find ourselves

Truly touching

Books by Julie Buxbaum

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