SO FAR AWAY by Meg Mitchell Moore

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So Far Away

By Meg Mitchell Moore

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Here’s another great one from Meg Mitchell Moore!

So Far Away just came out, in fact its publication date was last week, so I have not had a chance to read it yet, but the premise is fascinating, and I’m particularly interested in it because of the aspect of cyber-bullying, which I’ve not yet read in a book. And, if it’s anything like Meg’s first novel, which I featured last week, then it’s definitely going to be fabulous! And how amazing are her covers? Tell me you can’t judge a book by its cover and I’ll call you a liar! Well, of course I wouldn't call you a LIAR, but, I'm just telling you her book covers are GORGEOUS!

Here’s what So Far Away is about:

Thirteen-year-old Natalie Gallagher is trying to escape: from her parents' ugly divorce, and from the vicious cyber-bullying of her former best friend. Adrift, confused, she is a girl trying to find her way in a world that seems to either neglect or despise her. Her salvation arrives in an unlikely form: Bridget O'Connell, an Irish maid working for a wealthy Boston family. The catch? Bridget lives only in the pages of a dusty old 1920s diary Natalie unearthed in her mother's basement. But the life she describes is as troubling - and mysterious - as the one Natalie is trying to navigate herself, almost a century later.

I am writing this down because this is my story. There were only ever two people who knew my secret, and both are gone before me.

Who was Bridget, and what became of her?

Natalie escapes into the diary, eager to unlock its secrets, and reluctantly accepts the help of library archivist Kathleen Lynch, a widow with her own painful secret: she's estranged from her only daughter. Kathleen sees in Natalie traces of the daughter she has lost, and in Bridget, another spirited young woman at risk.

What could an Irish immigrant domestic servant from the 1920s teach them both? As the troubles of a very modern world close in around them, and Natalie's torments at school escalate, the faded pages of Bridget's journal unite the lonely girl and the unhappy widow - and might even change their lives forever.

To enter to win a copy of So Far Away, tell me if you ever kept a diary? I have a diary as far back as second grade, and one that I kept pretty religiously in eighth grade. I have my very first kiss documented which was pretty uneventful. The really juicy ones are from freshman year in college! I also kept MANY, MANY old letters, every single one I ever got from any boy who ever wrote me I've saved (there were NOT many). What about you? Share YOUR secrets here! : )

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