Notes on Your Sudden Disappearance
From the bestselling author of The Wedding People
Author: Alison Espach
A funny and heartbreaking coming-of-age story about two sisters in a small town in 1990s Connecticut, from the bestselling author of The Wedding People
29th September 2025
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A funny and heartbreaking coming-of-age story about two sisters in a small town in 1990s Connecticut, from the bestselling author of The Wedding People
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'Heartbreaking and funny, often in the same sentence'
Claire Lombardo, bestselling author of The Most Fun We Ever Had
For much of her life, Sally Holt has been mystified by the things her older sister, Kathy, seems to have been born knowing.
Kathy has answers for all of Sally's questions about life, about love, and about Billy Barnes, a rising senior and local basketball star who mans the concession stand at the town pool. The girls have been fascinated by Billy ever since he jumped off the roof in elementary school, but Billy has never shown much interest in them until the summer before Sally begins eighth grade. By then, their mutual infatuation with Billy is one of the few things the increasingly different sisters have in common. Sally spends much of that summer at the pool, watching in confusion and excitement as her sister falls deeper in love with Billy-until a tragedy leaves Sally's life forever intertwined with his.
Opening in the early nineties and charting almost two decades of shared history and missed connections, Notes on Your Sudden Disappearance is both a breathtaking love story about two broken people who are unexplainably, inconveniently drawn to each other and a wryly astute coming-of-age tale brimming with unexpected moments of joy.
About the Author
Alison Espach is the author of two previous novels, though The Wedding People is the first to be published in the UK. Her short stories and essays have appeared in a wide range of publications, including McSweeney's and Vogue. She is a professor of creative writing at Providence College in Rhode Island.
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