Pack Up the Moon

Pack Up the Moon

Author: Anna McPartlin
Desc: There's A Big Life Ahead Of Her. But Can She Find The Courage To Live It? Emma is twenty-six pretty intelligent and happily living with her childhood sweetheart John in a cute little Dublin apartment. Her biggest problem is that her mother won't stop nagging her to get married already. Emma and John feel like the perfect couple their future alive with possibilities. But out of the blue a tragedy throws her life into disarray and Emma is suddenly incomprehensibly alone. As she emerges from grief Emma has to find a whole new way of living and her loyal friends rally round in an attempt to help. Clodagh Emma's lifelong friend with whom she's shared everything from mud pies to dating disasters. Anne and Richard more-or-less happily married and debating a move to the country. Emma's brother Noel the young Catholic priest finding his own faith tested even as he tries to comfort Emma. Sean the gorgeous bad boy of a thousand one-night stands uncomfortably aware of his and Emma's growing connection. Witty acerbic and sometimes downright shocking Emma documents the stories of her friends and her own recovery from grief with a candor that engages the reader from the very first page. With an amazing insight into the power of friendship and a wry irreverent humor that considers no subject off-limits talented new Irish writer Anna McPartlin tells a heartwarming story of the courage it takes to move past loss and learn to live.