Ps Novel by Cecilia Ahern

PS, I Love You
Cecelia Ahern

Acknowledgments
Thank you, Mom, Dad, Georgina, Nicky, all my family and friends. Thank you, Marianne Gunn O'Connor. Thank you to my Hyperion editor, Peternelle van Arsdale.

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Copyright © 2004 by Cecelia Ahern
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PS, I Love You
Cecelia Ahern

A young married couple, Holly and Gerry, have a joke between them: If anything ever happened
to him, he'd have to write her a list or else she'd never be able to cope without him. “The List”

grew to encompass advice for any eventuality, a joke all their friends shared. When Gerry's severe headache is diagnosed as brain cancer and Holly tragically loses him in a few short months, she is devastated and unmoored. She hasn't just lost her husband, she's lost her very identity. And then it arrives: a package marked “The List.” Gerry has kept his promise, and

inside this package are ten envelopes to be opened over a period of ten months. Each letter
offers specific instructions to guide Holly through grief, and ultimately grant her permission to

return to life. Of course each letter ends with PS, I Love You. The novel includes a cast of raucously funny and memorable characters, including Holly's best friends and four siblings who range in personality from the pink-haired world traveler Ciara to stick-in-the-mud Richard. Set in Ireland, the book has a wonderful Irish atmosphere... [continues]

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