This Book Will Save Your Life

This Book Will Save Your Life is a 2006 novel by A.M. Homes, author of The End of Alice and the memoir The Mistress's Daughter. Homes later won the Women's Prize for Fiction for May We Be Forgiven. Richard Novak is a wealthy, isolated Los Angeles day trader whose life is run by assistants and routine. A sudden, unexplained pain sends him to the hospital and jolts him out of his isolation. He begins reaching out to strangers, neighbors, and his estranged son in this comic, hopeful novel.

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Stephen King: “I told you one book on my list wasn’t available yet; this is it. I get tons of soon-to-be-published novels, and happened to pick this one up because of the unusual title. And couldn’t put it down again.”