In the Unlikely Event
- Author Judy Blume
- Narrator Kathleen McInerney
- Publisher Pan Macmillan
- Publish Date 4 June 2015
- Run Time 14 hours and 4 minutes
- Format Audio
- Genre Family life fiction, Historical fiction, Historical romance, Narrative theme: Death, grief, loss, Narrative theme: Sense of place.
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What to expect
In 1987, Miri returns to her hometown to attend a commemoration of the worst year of her life. Beautiful, gripping and deeply moving, In the Unlikely Event is an unforgettable novel from Judy Blume.
Thirty-five years ago, when Miri Ammerman was fifteen and in love for the first time, three planes fell from the sky within three months, leaving the commmunity of Elizabeth, New Jersey reeling.
The plane crashes bring some people closer together and tear others apart; they create myths and unlock secrets. As Miri experiences the ordinary joys and pains of growing up in extraordinary circumstances, a young journalist makes his name reporting tragedy. And through it all, one generation reminds another that life goes on.
Against this backdrop of actual events in the early 1950s, when airline travel was new and exciting and everyone dreamed of going somewhere, Judy Blume weaves a haunting story of three generations of families, friends, and strangers, whose lives are for ever changed in the aftermath.
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