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The Proper Care and Maintenance of Friendship

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A grave loss changes the lives of three friends in ways they never imagined in this warm, engaging and heartrending novel.

In every group of friends there is a leader, the one who brings the group together and encourages them to celebrate the friendship they share. Rachel Braun was that leader, the inspiration to her group of friends - the one who lived each day to the fullest, the life of the party - until her life was cut tragically and unexpectedly short. While her friends are coming to terms with the trauma of losing her, they each receive a letter from her out of the blue, asking them for a favour and challenging them to face their biggest fears.

Sarah, an international relief worker, must travel halfway around the world to track down the only man she ever loved. Stay-at-home mum Kate must confront her fear of heights by skydiving and, by doing so, discover new truths about her marriage. And Jo, a media mogul once voted 'least likely to breed', is given the most terrifying assignment of all.

Through her final letters, Sarah, Kate and Jo discover that their lives are enriched by a friend who, in many ways, knew them better than they knew themselves. Even as these women mourn and miss their beloved Rachel, her legacy lives on in the hope she kindles in their hearts.

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    • Publisher's Weekly

      November 1, 2010
      Higgins's (Heaven in His Arms) life-affirming novel reduces a fearless foursome to three when the adventurous Rachel Braun dies of cancer at 38. Though Rachel kept her diagnosis a secret from her friends, she wrote each a challenge to be read after her death. Kate Jansen, a married homemaker with three children, is told to skydive ("you're overwhelmed by your life," Rachel writes). In Rachel's view, globe-trotting Doctors Without Borders nurse Sarah Pollard is blinded to love in her grief over her ex: "You need to win him back, or finally say good-bye." But it's Bobbie "Jo" Marcum, a single, commitment-phobic businesswoman, of whom Rachel makes the greatest request, by leaving her custody of her seven-year-old daughter: "Take Grace." Large and small, their decisions affect them all in transformative ways, as when Kate accompanies Sarah to find her ex, now a doctor living in India. Higgins's romantic tendencies (she's penned several romance novels) inform the proceedings; with her mainstream debut, she creates a happy reminder that life is all about taking risks.

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