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The smart one

Jennifer Close

2013339 pagesabout 5–8 hours
2013
first published
  • 2013Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group · ENGISBN 9781299401105
  • 2013Bond Street Books · 339 pages · ENGISBN 9780385676458
  • 2013Anchor Canada · 422 pages · ENGISBN 9780385676472
  • 2013Vintage Contemporaries · 422 pages · ENGISBN 9780307743701
  • 2014ENGISBN 9780099563297
  • 2014Penguin Random House · 496 pages · ENGISBN 9781448191901

The Coffey siblings are having a rough year. Claire has broken up with her fiance and is hiding from her debts. Martha's in a career crisis and even her therapist is losing patience with her. And Max, the baby of the family in his final year of college, is keeping a life-altering secret. Before long, all three of them have moved back home. But things aren't so easy the second time around. Martha and Claire regress to fighting over the shared bathroom while their mother continues to plan Claire's thwarted wedding (unbeknownst to Claire). But it's only a matter of time before Max's secret comes out and changes all of their lives...

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