![]() ![]() Margaret Jacobsen is just about to step into the bright future she’s worked for so hard and so long: A new dream job, a fiancé she adores, and the promise of a picture-perfect life just around the corner. This generous story about family secrets, love in sickness and in health, and the resilience of the human spirit has serious Nora Ephron vibes. ![]() But only minutes later, a freak accident occurs, and everything Margaret’s worked so hard to build comes crashing down.Īfter the shock of the first few chapters wore off, I settled into the story like a fly on the wall, watching our endearing and slightly neurotic Margaret come to grips with the (literal and figurative) wreckage of her life while managing a rotating cast of family members, caregivers, and a temptingly-moody physical therapist. When Margaret Jacobsen’s amateur pilot boyfriend wooes her in the cabin of a high-flying small plane, the concrete foundation of her future perfect life-a fancy career, a loving husband-is at last beginning to set. How To Walk Away begins where most romances end-with a marriage proposal. But Katherine Center's voice did what great fiction is meant to do: It pulled me in so immediately and completely that I forgot about real life. ![]() One hundred pages later, I realized I had missed six emails, two phone calls, and lunch. I picked up How To Walk Away with the intention of reading the opening paragraph, just to see what it was all about. ![]()
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