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ISBN 978-0-545-22126-9 HC
Ages 13 and up
320 pages
5 ½’ x 8 ¼’

by Judy Blundell

Kit Corrigan has always dreamed of being a star. But in order to get there, she needs to break up with Billy, who’s going to Korea, and leave her family in Providence, Rhode Island, to move to New York City. There, she finds small roles and a city that’s tough to live in.

After she meets with Billy’s father, Nate, things get a little easier. But Nate is a lawyer who defends mobsters, and soon Kit realizes that she has to do what he asks of her. Kit’s life starts to feel beyond her control, especially once she uncovers a mystery that she needs to solve in order to protect the people she loves.

As she did in her National Book Award–winning What I Saw and How I Lied, Judy Blundell traps readers in a web of deceit, intrigue, and profound moral questions. The result? One stunner of a novel.


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Excerpt from STRINGS ATTACHED
by Judy Blundell

Chapter Fifteen

New York City
November 1950

The apartment was dim and chilly. I hadn’t pulled the shades open yet in the living room. I quickly crossed to them, and the even gray light of late afternoon flooded in.

Billy stood in the doorway to the living room, his cap in his hands. He turned it over and over while he looked around.

This was it, the moment I dreamed of, and I couldn’t seem to move. He was looking at our apartment, the one we’d live in together, only I couldn’t tell him that. I couldn’t tell him that this could be our future, if only we could say the right words, get back what we had.

All I knew standing there, looking across the room at his uncertain face, was that I still loved him. It had been crazy to think that I didn’t. I had run here to New York not just because I was furious at my father. I had run here because I couldn’t imagine being in Providence without Billy.

Billy’s tie was crooked, and I wanted to straighten it. All those things I could do once, I couldn’t do now. That simple gesture of straightening his tie, looking up at him, and he would look down and kiss me. Did I have a right to those familiar gestures?

He cleared his throat. “It’s nice. I didn’t realize you could get such nice places in New York.”

From Strings Attached. Copyright © 2011 by Judy Blundell. All rights reserved.

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