When is curiosity a betrayal? And if James says he loves her, isn’t that just another way of saying he still loves Link? Ellen’s parents want Link to keep his secrets to himself, but Ellen wants to know who her brother really is. James refuses to stay friends with a boy so full of secrets. Then someone at school asks if Link and James might be in love with each other. She’ll always love James just the way she’ll always love Link. “When you grow out of it,” James teases her, “you will break my heart.”Įllen knows she’ll never outgrow it. She is totally, madly in love with James, his face full of long eyelashes and hidden smiles. She loves her brother, the math genius and track star. She knows they fight, but she makes it a policy never to take sides. Her older brother and his best friend are the only company she ever wants. Maybe, Leila, decides, most people have a hard time figuring out which way is left or knowing when to let go and when to stay.Ellen loves Link and James. Maybe she'll never know why Rebecca did what she did.
Maybe letting Eamon love her back is a mistake. And yet, the months go by and Leila turns seventeen and learns that you can love someone you are not dating. He thinks Leila is beautiful and smart, but he does not, he tells her, date teenagers. Eamon is thirty-one and writes for television. With Clare's reluctant help, Leila tracks down Rebecca's favorite places and tries to find her sister's friends. She starts by spending time with Clare and finally comes to know her as a person instead of a story. When Rebecca kills herself, Leila wants to know why. Leila doesn't know either of them very well, but she loves hearing about them-details of Rebecca's ruined marriage, Clare's first job, and the strings of unsuitable boyfriends. Her elegant sisters from her father's first marriage have lives full of work, love affairs, and travel. Sixteen-year-old Leila Abranel was born some twenty years after her sisters.
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