Lovely, Dark and Deep

Amy McNamara

• Publisher: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
• Year: 2012
• eBook ISBN: 9781442434387

The "quiet emergence from despair rings true" ( Kirkus Reviews ) in this resonant debut novel about retreating from the world after losing everything. Wren Wells is hiding out. Though she lived through the accident that killed her boyfriend Patrick, the girl she used to be didn't survive. Instead of heading off to college as planned, Wren retreats to her father's studio in the northern woods of Maine. All she wants is a little quiet, a place where she can be in control.Then she meets Cal Owen. Dealing with his own troubles, Cal is hiding out too. When the chemistry between them threatens to pull Wren from her hard-won exile, Wren has to choose: risk opening her broken heart to the world again, or join the ghosts who haunt her.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Dedication
• John Wells’ Daughter
• I Won’t Start Now
• The Woods
• No-Person
• Behind a Cemetery Wall
• If You Tell Me You’re Okay
• A Small Town Is A Small Town Is A
• Falling Like Snow
• Nearer Now
• A Good House
• Nothing Happens Anywhere
• Nothing to Say
• One Side has to Go
• Thank You, Mary
• The Room Takes Shape
• Looking Up
• A Regular Person
• A Little Like I Might Fly Away
• Open Your Eyes
• Look, Look
• The Stars are Brightly Shining
• Swap Night
• Clumsy
• It’s So Still
• Mornin’ Sunshine
• Where did All the Air Go?
• Bad to Worse to Worst
• It Almost Made Me Laugh
• Way Too Fast
• It was Dark
• Whose Woods
• Beacon
• The Only Air
• No Agenda
• Your Color’s Back
• Hard to Argue Against the Evidence
• Say Something True
• A Routine
• Breathe
• Meredith
• You’re A Freak
• Flinch
• Must be Love
• Just Say It
• Where we Live
• Still Here
• Acknowledgments
• About Amy McNamara
• Copyright