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Description

Last year, Annabel was "the girl who has everything"—at least that’s the part she played in the television commercial for Kopf ’s Department Store.This year, she’s the girl who has nothing: no best friend because mean-but-exciting Sophie dropped her, no peace at home since her older sister... read more

Cast of Characters/Important People

  • Owen: Owen is a quiet kind of person. He doesn't talk much at all. He quickly finds friendship with Annabel. Music obsessed and a reformed bad boy, always tells the truth.
  • Annabel: Model, distressed and keeping in a secret after loosing her best friends, then befriends Owen, who she can really talk to, until a secret gets to hard to bear.
  • Kirsten: Annabel's oldest sister, strong, chatty
  • Whitney: Annabel's second older sister, quiet, brooding and struggling with an eating disorder She is the middle sister.

Memorable Quotes

  • “"I understood now. This voice, the one that had been trying to get my attention all this time, calling out to me, begging me to hear it - it wasn't Will's. It was mine."”
    Annabel
  • “"Silence is so freaking loud!"”
  • “"Don't think or judge; just listen."”
    Annabel

First Sentence

I taped the commercial back in April, before anything had happened, and promptly forgot about it.

Table of Contents

Chapter:1 - Page: 1
Chapter:2 - Page: 18
Chapter:3 - Page: 41
Chapter:4 - Page: 64
Chapter:5 - Page: 87
Chapter:6 - Page: 113
Chapter:7 - Page: 131
Chapter:8 - Page: 146
Chapter:9 - Page: 157
Chapter:10 - Page: 177
Chapter:11 - Page: 205
Chapter:12 - Page: 229
Chapter:13 - Page: 252
Chapter:14 - Page: 275
Chapter:15 - Page: 296
Chapter:16 - Page: 313
Chapter:17 - Page: 334
Chapter:18 - Page: 341
Chapter:19 - Page: 355
Chapter: 20 - Page: 364

Authors & Contributors

  1. Sarah Dessen (Author)
 

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