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More About This Title Maggie's Tree
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It was supposed to be "a lovely break." As their mutual friend Helena is the toast of Broadway, stand-up comedian Cissie O'Brien, who is the nation's darling with her popular television series, decides to take the beautiful and troubled actress Maggie Salt to New York to see her. But Maggie, a destructive whirlpool of a personality, is cracking up fast and on arrival she suddenly disappears into the freezing February night. As the search for their friend continues, dangerous cracks occur in the lifelong relationships of Cissie, Helena, and her stoic husband Mark. Helena has always been utterly self-centered and now Cissie, haunted by the outing of her relationship with her lover Jenny back home, disappears as well. Now, two friends are lost separately somewhere in snowbound Manhattan.
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"Walter's reading makes this a real treat. She accentuates the dark humour and growing tension with great skill in this promising first novel." —Waterstones Books Quarterly
"A stunningly assured delightful debut." —The Daily Mail
"Walter's fiction debut is as funny as you'd expect, and twice as frenetic." —Independent
"...knock-out stuff, the work of a writer who knows what she's doing." —The Independent
"Ms Walters is a gifted writer who entrances with a moving and darkly comic story." —Peterborough Evening Telegraph
"...the emotional issues are addressed tenderly and with feeling." —Daily Express
"Walters' writing is powerful at times, and has the immediacy that the best of her dramatic acting does." —The London Paper
"A spirited novel that captures some of the careening terror of mental illness. It's not without a certain deadpan wit, either." —The Observer