THE ENDS OF THE EARTH BY ABBIE GREAVES
PAPERBACK PUBLISHED BY CENTRY 29TH APRIL 2021
Mary O’Connor has been keeping a vigil for her first love for the past seven years.
Every evening without fail, Mary sets herself up among the commuters at Ealing Broadway Station with a sign simply saying : ‘ Come Home Jim. ‘
And she isn’t going anywhere.
That is, until an unexpected call turns her world and its routine on its head.
In spite of all her efforts, Mary can no longer find the strength to hold herself together and must let others help her.
Only by doing so can she finally face what happened all those years ago, and answer the question – where on earth is Jim?
MY REVIEW
Loved it! Just loved every page. The Ends of the Earth by Abbie Greaves is the best fictional missing persons book I’ve ever read this is why I’m going to highly recommend this extraordinary novel, with multiple characters that all have their own reasons for being in this story.
My first favourite characters was Mary O’Conner who has campaigned for her first love to come home, by going to Ealing Broadway Station, for the last seven years with a sign appealing for Jim to come home. The true fact is, it’s not unusual for an adults go missing, in the UK about 100,000 adults go missing each year.
Author Abbie Greaves has cleverly made the story come together. Mary works as a volunteer at a call centre Nightline, that is a crisis centre where people can call Nightline and remain anonymous. One evening while Mary is taking calls, she is adamant it is Jim on the end of line talking to her.
My second favourite character was Alice who works for a newspaper, but is about to face redundancy unless she can come up with a masterpiece for the front page. When Alice meets Mary, she is genuinely sympathetic to discover Mary is taking a banner to the Ealing Broadway Station in hope that it will bring home her boyfriend Jim. Being a journalist, Alice wants to use her professional skills to help Mary find Jim.
The whole story The Ends of the Earth is such a wonderful adventure, I do hope you enjoy reading it as much as what I did.
ABOUT ABBIE GREAVES
Abbie Greaves studied at Cambridge University before working in a literary agency for a number of years. She was inspired to write her first novel, The Silent Treatment, after reading a newspaper article about a boy in Japan who had never seen his parents speak to one another before, Abbie lives in Brighton. You can find Abbie Greaves on her website
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