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Notes on Your Sudden Disappearance

From the million-copy bestselling author of The Wedding People

By: Alison Espach

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Paperback | 2 October 2025 | Edition Number 1

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352 Pages

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19.7 x 13.0 x 2.9

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'Heartbreaking and funny, often in the same sentence'
Claire Lombardo

Sally Holt has always 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, the high school basketball star who runs the refreshment stand at the local pool. Billy's unfathomable, otherworldly cool puts him on a different planet - 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 a dazzlingly unconventional love story that brims with unexpected moments of joy.

About the Author

Alison Espach is the author of three novels including The Wedding People, which was selected for the Read With Jenna book club and became a major international bestseller. 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.

Industry Reviews

Espach is an immensely talented writer . . . This novel is deeply moving, always excellent, and often unexpectedly funny - Emily St. John Mandel, bestselling author of THE GLASS HOTEL

A deeply felt, finely wrought, and highly satisfying novel. Alison Espach has created a family whose every sorrow, joy, and idiosyncrasy is utterly, vibrantly real - Claire Lombardo, bestselling author of THE MOST FUN WE EVER HAD

Tender, eloquent, and wise, this is an intensely beautiful book by a supremely gifted writer - Karen Thompson Walker, author of THE DREAMERS

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