"In her deeply moving latest, Delinsky follows one woman's journey of self-discovery as she learns to face the ghosts of her past... This is a rewarding, emotionally intense novel."
—PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
About Barbara
I was born and raised in suburban Boston. My mother’s death, when I was eight, was the defining event of a childhood that was otherwise ordinary.
Before and Again
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Mackenzie Cooper does not want to be who she was — the one who was driving with her eyes on her phone just long enough to cause a deadly accident that cost her everything. In order to survive, she becomes someone new, someone better — until the past returns.
What Barbara's Reading
Nora Roberts is a master. She knows her audience, and she writes for it well. She is an addict, a word she used, herself when we first met in 1981 at the inaugural Romance Writers of America convention. And I believe it. She writes non-stop, multiple books a year, year after year after year. While…
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Here I am again, having just finished writing one opus and now contemplating the next. Where to place it? Where would you set your book, if you were to write one? I’ve been writing about New England pretty much since the start of my career. There were a few exceptions years ago when I set…
